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Quantum characteristic classes, moment correspondences and the Hamiltonian groups of coadjoint orbits

Symplectic Geometry 2021-07-20 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

For any coadjoint orbit G/LG/L, we determine all useful terms of the associated Savelyev-Seidel morphism defined on H(ΩG)H_{-*}(\Omega G). Immediate consequences are: (1) the dimension of the kernel of the natural map π(G)Qπ(Ham(G/L))Q\pi_*(G)\otimes \mathbb{Q}\rightarrow \pi_*(Ham(G/L))\otimes \mathbb{Q} is at most the semi-simple rank of LL, and (2) the Bott-Samelson cycles in ΩG\Omega G which correspond to Peterson elements are solutions to the min-max problem for Hofer's max-length functional on ΩHam(G/L)\Omega Ham(G/L). The proof is based on Bae-Chow-Leung's recent computation of Ma'u-Wehrheim-Woodward morphism for the moment correspondence associated to G/TG/T where TT is a maximal torus, the computation of Abbondandolo-Schwarz isomorphism for GG, and two theoretical results including the coincidence of the above Savelyev-Seidel and Ma'u-Wehrheim-Woodward morphisms, and a Leray-type spectral sequence relating Savelyev-Seidel morphisms for G/LG/L and G/TG/T. These ingredients also allow us to obtain an alternative proof of Peterson-Woodward's comparison formula which relates the quantum cohomology of G/TG/T to that of G/LG/L.

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@article{arxiv.2107.08576,
  title  = {Quantum characteristic classes, moment correspondences and the Hamiltonian groups of coadjoint orbits},
  author = {Chi Hong Chow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.08576},
  year   = {2021}
}

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