Mathematics – Combinatorics
Scientific paper
2002-05-15
Mathematics
Combinatorics
amsart LaTeX, 33 pages, 7 colored figures; v2: minor corrections, references added
Scientific paper
This article presents a formula for products of Schubert classes in the quantum cohomology ring of the Grassmannian. We introduce a generalization of Schur symmetric polynomials for shapes that are naturally embedded in a torus. Then we show that the coefficients in the expansion of these toric Schur polynomials, in terms of the regular Schur polynomials, are exactly the 3-point Gromov-Witten invariants; which are the structure constants of the quantum cohomology ring. This construction implies that the Gromov-Witten invariants of the Grassmannian are invariant with respect to the action of a twisted product of the groups S_3, (Z/nZ)^2, and Z/2Z. The last group gives a certain strange duality of the quantum cohomologythat inverts the quantum parameter q. Our construction gives a solution to a problem posed by Fulton and Woodward about the characterization of the powers of the quantum parameter q that occur with nonzero coefficients in the quantum product of two Schubert classes. The strange duality switches the smallest such power of q with the highest power. We also discuss the affine nil-Temperley-Lieb algebra that gives a model for the quantum cohomology.
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