[工程科技]Quantum cohomology of minuscule homogeneous spaces.pdf

Quantum cohomology of minuscule homogeneous spaces P.E. Chaput, L. Manivel, N. Perrin 6 February 2, 2008 0 0 2 p e S Abstract 8 We study the quantum cohomology of (co)minuscule homogeneous varieties under a unified perspective. 2 We show that three points Gromov-Witten invariants can always be interpreted as classical intersection numbers on auxiliary homogeneous varieties. Our main combinatorial tools are certain quivers, in terms ] G of which we obtain a quantum Chevalley formula and a higher quantum Poincar´e duality. In particular A we compute the quantum cohomology of the two exceptional minuscule homogeneous varieties. . h t 1 Introduction a m The quantum cohomology of complex homogeneous spaces has been studied by many people since the [ fundamental works of Witten and Kontsevich-Manin – see [Fu] for a survey. The (small) quantum cohomol- 2 ogy ring of Grassmannians was investigated by Bertram with the help of Grothendieck’s Quot schemes [Be], v 2 a method which can be applied in other situations but can be quite technical. An important breakthrough, 9 which greatly simplified the computations of the quantum products in many cases, was the observation by 4 7 Buch that the Gromov-Witten invariants of certain homogeneous spaces are controlled by classical intersec- 0 tion numbers, but on certain auxiliary homogeneous varieties [Bu]. 6 In this paper we make use of this idea in the general context of minuscule and cominuscule homogeneous 0 / varieties (see the next section for the definitions). We give a unified treatment of the quantum cohomology h ring of varieties includin