A note on quantum products of Schubert classes in a Grassmannian

Abstract: Given two Schubert classes

s i g m a_{l a m b d a}

and

s i g m a_{m u}

in the quantum cohomology of a Grassmannian, we construct a partition

u

, depending on

l a m b d a

and

m u

, such that

s i g m a_{u}

appears with coefficient 1 in the lowest (or highest) degree part of the quantum product

s i g m a_{l a m b d a} s t a r s i g m a_{m u}

. To do this, we show that for any two partitions

l a m b d a

and

m u

, contained in a

k

-by-

(n - k)

rectangle and such that the 180-degree rotation of one does not overlap the other, there is a third partition

u

, also contained in the rectangle, such that the Littlewood-Richardson number

c_{l a m b d a m u}^{u}

is 1.

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