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Author(s): Prakash Belkale
Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (2008), 365-408.
MSC (2000): Primary 14N35, 14D20
Posted: October 25, 2007
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(1) a quantum (multiplicative) generalization of the Horn conjecture which gives a recursive characterization of the possible eigenvalues of a product of unitary matrices,

(3) transversality statements for quantum Schubert calculus in any characteristic for the ordinary Grassmannians,

(4) determination of the smallest power of

in an arbitrary (small quantum) product of Schubert varieties in an ordinary Grassmannian.

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Prakash Belkale
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, CB \#3250, Phillips Hall, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
Email: belkale@email.unc.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-07-00584-X
PII: S 0894-0347(07)00584-X
Received by editor(s): July 22, 2005
Posted: October 25, 2007
Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0300356.
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