Keywords: quantum cohomology, flag manifold, Schubert poynomial, elementary symmetric polynomial, standard elementary monomial;
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10.1007/PL00001282
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摘要:
The computation and understanding of quantum cohomology is a very hard problem in mathematical physics (string theory). We review in non-technical terms how, in the case of the flag manifolds, this problem can turn out to be at its core a non-trivial problem in algebraic combinatorics.