From Quantum Cohomology to Algebraic Combinatorics: The Example of Flag Manifolds

Annals of Combinatorics - Tập 4 - Trang 299-305 - 2000
R. Winkel1
1Institut für Reine und Angewandte Mathematik, RWTH Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany, e-mail: [email protected], , DE

Tóm tắt

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.