Quantum cohomology and the 𝑘-Schur basis

From MaRDI portal
Publication:5437625

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-07-04287-0zbMATH Open1132.05060arXivmath/0501529OpenAlexW2143365249MaRDI QIDQ5437625FDOQ5437625

J. Morse, Luc Lapointe

Publication date: 21 January 2008

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that structure constants related to Hecke algebras at roots of unity are special cases of k-Littlewood-Richardson coefficients associated to a product of k-Schur functions. As a consequence, both the 3-point Gromov-Witten invariants appearing in the quantum cohomology of the Grassmannian, and the fusion coefficients for the WZW conformal field theories associated to hat{su}(ell) are shown to be k-Littlewood Richardson coefficients. From this, Mark Shimozono conjectured that the k-Schur functions form the Schubert basis for the homology of the loop Grassmannian, whereas k-Schur coproducts correspond to the integral cohomology of the loop Grassmannian. We introduce dual k-Schur functions defined on weights of k-tableaux that, given Shimozono's conjecture, form the Schubert basis for the cohomology of the loop Grassmannian. We derive several properties of these functions that extend those of skew Schur functions.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501529




Recommendations




Cites Work


Cited In (34)





This page was built for publication: Quantum cohomology and the 𝑘-Schur basis

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5437625)