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The Quantum Cohomology Ring of Flag Varieties

Author(s): Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 351 (1999), 2695-2729.
MSC (1991): Primary 14M15; Secondary 14N10
Posted: February 5, 1999
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Abstract: We describe the small quantum cohomology ring of complete flag varieties by algebro-geometric methods, as presented in our previous work Quantum cohomology of flag varieties (Internat. Math. Res. Notices, no. 6 (1995), 263-277). We also give a geometric proof of the quantum Monk formula.

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Additional Information:

Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, 2033 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-2730
Email: ciocan@math.nwu.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02230-8
PII: S 0002-9947(99)02230-8
Keywords: Quantum cohomology, flag varieties, hyperquot schemes, degeneracy loci
Received by editor(s): April 2, 1997
Posted: February 5, 1999
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society

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