Geometry of Horospherical Varieties of Picard Rank One. (24th February 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gonzales, R; Pech, C; Perrin, N; Samokhin, A
• Is Part Of: International mathematics research notices. Volume 2022:Number 12(2022)
• Page Start: 8916
• Page End: 9012
• Publication Date: 2021-02-24
• Subjects: Mathematics -- Periodicals; 510
• DOI: 10.1093/imrn/rnaa331
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1073-7928

Abstract

Abstract: We study the geometry of smooth non-homogeneous horospherical varieties of Picard rank one. These have been classified by Pasquier and include the well-known odd symplectic Grassmannians. We focus our study on quantum cohomology, with a view towards Dubrovin's conjecture. We start with describing the cohomology groups of smooth horospherical varieties of Picard rank one. We show a Chevalley formula for these and establish that many Gromov–Witten invariants are enumerative. This enables us to prove that in many cases the quantum cohomology is semisimple. We give a presentation of the quantum cohomology ring for odd symplectic Grassmannians. In the last sections, we turn to derived categories of coherent sheaves. We first discuss a general construction of exceptional bundles on horospherical varieties. We work out in detail the case of the horospherical variety associated to the exceptional group $G_2$ and construct a full rectangular Lefschetz exceptional collection in the derived category.