Some applications of localization to enumerative problems.

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1030132708MaRDI QIDQ5954581zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aaron Bertram

Publication date 4 February 2002

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0007083

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35)

Abstract: A simple corollary of the localization theorem (due to the author and, independently, to Lian-Liu-Yau) is applied to several problems in enumerative geometry. New formulas for Schubert calculus on flag manifolds, due to Kong, and a new reconstruction theorem for genus-zero Gromov-Witten invariants, due to Bertram-Kley, are discussed, as well as some simple functorial properties of Givental's J-function. This paper will appear in the issue of the Michigan Mathematical Journal dedicated to Bill Fulton.

Review text

The author surveys applications of the localization technique to enumerative geometry, focussing on the cases of Schubert calculus on the flag manifold and Gromov-Witten invariants of rational curves. NEWLINENEWLINEFirst, equivariant cohomology theory and the Atiyah-Bott localization theorem are reviewed. The next section gives \textit{J. Kong}'s [Schubert calculus on flag manifolds via localization, Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, 2000] results on the Schubert calculus of the partial flag manifolds. Finally, it is described how formulae for genus zero Gromov-Witten invariants of a smooth projective variety \(X\) can be obtainedNEWLINEby localization even if there is no group action on \(X\). By applying this method, the quantum Lefschetz hyperplane theorem and the genus zero reconstruction theorem are derived.

Recommendations

• Localization of virtual classes
• Localization and string duality
• Equivariant Gromov - Witten Invariants
• Gromov-Witten invariants of the Hilbert scheme of two points on a Hirzebruch surface
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5927510

Cited in

(8)

• Enumeration by stabilizer class of patterns with local restrictions
• Vertical Gromov-Witten invariants of flag bundles.
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4129079 (Why is no real title available?)
• Localization and some recent applications
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1453077 (Why is no real title available?)
• Localization and mirror symmetry
• A combinatorial case of the abelian-nonabelian correspondence
• Localization in Gromov-Witten theory of toric varieties in a computer algebra system

This page was built for publication: Some applications of localization to enumerative problems.

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5954581)