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

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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.

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  1. Institut für Reine und Angewandte Mathematik, RWTH Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany, e-mail: winkel@iram.rwth-aachen.de, , , , , , DE

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Received February 16, 1999

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Winkel, R. From Quantum Cohomology to Algebraic Combinatorics: The Example of Flag Manifolds. Annals of Combinatorics 4, 299–305 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001282

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