On the Schubert calculus of the quantum K-theory for partial flag manifolds: a 3d A-model perspective
Zhihao Duan (Section de Mathématiques, Université de Genève, Genève 4, 1211, Switzerland, Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, Geneva 23, 1211, Switzerland)
; Osama Khlaif (Philippe Meyer Institute, Physics Department, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Université PSL, 24 rue Lhomond, Paris, F-75231, France)
; Hao Zou (Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China, Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Shanghai, 200433, China)
We further investigate the 3d gauged linear sigma model (GLSM)/ quantum K-theory correspondence for partial flag manifolds $\textit{X}$ ≡ Fl( ; $\textit{n}$). This is a 3d uplift of the 2d GLSM/quantum cohomology correspondence with the 3d theory compactified on $$ {\mathbb{R}}^2\times {S}_{\beta}^1 $$ . Recently, a set of half-BPS line operators, called Schubert line defects, were constructed that correspond to the Schubert classes in the K-theory ring of $\textit{X}$. Utilizing algebro-geometric algorithms, we compute 2-point and 3-point correlation functions of these line operators in the 3d A-model regime of the theory. These are interpreted as genus-0 K-theoretic Gromov-Witten invariants, and they produce the K-theoretic Littlewood-Richardson coefficients of the quantum K-theory ring of $\textit{X}$. We show how this works explicitly in examples, going beyond the existing results in the literature. Taking the small $\textit{β}$ limit, we apply these techniques to the resulting 2d GLSM. We explicitly compute the quantum cohomology ring relations of $\textit{X}$ for some cases and match with existing results in the literature in examples.