Date/heure
7 novembre 2016
15:30 - 16:30
Oratrice ou orateur
Christoph Baerligea
Catégorie d'évènement Séminaire de géométrie complexe
Résumé
Gromov-Witten invariants are invariants of a smooth projective variety $X$ which count the number of curves of genus zero on $X$ meeting prescribed incidence conditions. The (small) quantum cohomology ring is a commutative graded $mathbb{Z}[q]$-algebra whose structure coefficients are given by three-point genus zero Gromov-Witten invariants. It is a deformation of the ordinary cohomology and depends on polynomial variables $q$ indexed by a basis of $H_2(X)$. In this talk, we will focus on the simplest case where $X=G/P$ is a homogeneous space. In this case, Fulton-Woodward gave a description of the minimal degrees $d$ such that $q^d$ occurs in the quantum product of two Schubert cycles. We will use this description and the theory of curve neighborhoods by Buch-Mihalcea to prove that there exists a unique minimal degree $d_X$ in the quantum product of two points. This degree $d_X$ can be completely understood in terms of Kostant’s cascade of strongly orthogonal roots. Moreover, it can be shown that any minimal degree in any quantum product of two Schubert cycles is bounded by $d_X$.