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Quantum bumpless pipe dreams

Combinatorics 2025-02-12 v2

Abstract

Schubert polynomials are polynomial representatives of Schubert classes in the cohomology of the complete flag variety and have a combinatorial formulation in terms of bumpless pipe dreams. Quantum double Schubert polynomials are polynomial representatives of Schubert classes in the torus-equivariant quantum cohomology of the complete flag variety, but no analogous combinatorial formulation had been discovered. We introduce a generalization of the bumpless pipe dreams called quantum bumpless pipe dreams, giving a novel combinatorial formula for quantum double Schubert polynomials as a sum of binomial weights of quantum bumpless pipe dreams. We give a bijective proof for this formula by showing that the sum of binomial weights satisfies a defining transition equation.

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@article{arxiv.2403.16168,
  title  = {Quantum bumpless pipe dreams},
  author = {Tuong Le and Shuge Ouyang and Leo Tao and Joseph Restivo and Angelina Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.16168},
  year   = {2025}
}

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22 pages, 20 figures

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