Quantum Bruhat graph and Schubert polynomials
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Abstract:
The quantum Bruhat graph, which is an extension of the graph formed by covering relations in the Bruhat order, is naturally related to the quantum cohomology ring of $G/B$. We enhance a result of Fulton and Woodward by showing that the minimal monomial in the quantum parameters that occurs in the quantum product of two Schubert classes has a simple interpretation in terms of directed paths in this graph. We define path Schubert polynomials, which are quantum cohomology analogs of skew Schubert polynomials recently introduced by Lenart and Sottile. They are given by sums over paths in the quantum Bruhat graph of type $A$. The 3-point Gromov-Witten invariants for the flag manifold are expressed in terms of these polynomials. This construction gives a combinatorial description for the set of all monomials in the quantum parameters that occur in the quantum product of two Schubert classes.References
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Additional Information
- Alexander Postnikov
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- Email: apost@math.mit.edu
- Received by editor(s): July 21, 2003
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: November 20, 2003
- Published electronically: September 29, 2004
- Additional Notes: The author was supported in part by NSF grant DMS-0201494.
- Communicated by: John R. Stembridge
- © Copyright 2004
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005), 699-709
- MSC (2000): Primary 05E05, 14N35, 14M15
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07614-2
- MathSciNet review: 2113918