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Degree Bounds in Quantum Schubert Calculus

Alexander Yong

math.COarXiv:math/0112133

Abstract

Fulton and Woodward have recently identified the smallest degree of q that appears in the expansion of the product of two Schubert classes in the (small) quantum cohomology ring of a Grassmannian. We present a combinatorial proof of this result, and provide an alternative characterization of this smallest degree in terms of the rim hook formula for the quantum product.

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