Toward quantum Pieri rule for $F\ell_n$ via Seidel representation

Abstract

By using a ``quantum-to-classical" reduction formula on the Gromov-Witten invariants of flag vaireities $F\ell_n$, we provide a new proof of the Seidel operator on the quantum cohomology ring $QH^*(F\ell_n)$. Further, we reprove a quantum Pieri rule with respect to certain special Schubert class for $QH^*(F\ell_n)$. Finally, we propose a concrete conjecture on the corresponding quantum Pieri rule for the quantum $K$-theory of $F\ell_n$.