Quantum Cohomology of Grassmannians and Total Positivity

dc.creatorRietsch, Konstanze
dc.date2001-12-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:44:57Z
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dc.descriptionWe give a proof of a result of D. Peterson's identifying the quantum cohomology ring of a Grassmannian with the reduced coordinate ring of a certain subvariety of $GL_n$. The totally positive part of this subvariety is then constructed and we give closed formulas for the values of the Schubert basis elements on the totally positive points. We then use the developed methods to give a new proof of a formula of Vafa and Intriligator and Bertram for the structure constants (Gromov--Witten invariants). Finally, we use the positivity of these Gromov--Witten invariants to prove certain inequalities for Schur polynomials at roots of unity.
dc.descriptionRevised version of ESI preprint 923. To appear in Duke Math J
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0112022
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0112022
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/62801
dc.subjectQuantum Algebra
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subject20G20, 15A48, 14N35, 14N15, 05E05
dc.titleQuantum Cohomology of Grassmannians and Total Positivity
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