Curve neighborhoods and combinatorial property $\mathcal{O}$ for a family of odd symplectic partial flag manifolds
Connor Bean, Bradley Cruikshank, Ryan M. Shifler
TL;DR
This work analyzes curve neighborhoods in the odd symplectic partial flag manifold $\mathrm{IF}(1,2;E)$, giving a complete description of the irreducible components of $\Gamma_d$ for Schubert varieties, and showing the associated lattice structure is distributive. It develops a moment-graph framework and a combinatorial quantum Bruhat graph to formulate and prove a combinatorial version of Conjecture $\mathcal{O}$ for $\mathrm{IF}$, connecting curve neighborhood data with eigenstructure of the quantum product by the first Chern class. The main contributions are explicit curve-neighborhood formulas, a lattice-theoretic analysis, and a graph-theoretic route to property $\mathcal{O}$ in the odd symplectic setting. The results provide new combinatorial tools for understanding quantum cohomology and curve-data in non-homogeneous, odd-symplectic geometries with potential implications for related Gamma conjectures.
Abstract
Let $E$ be an odd dimensional complex vector space and $\mbox{IF}:=\mbox{IF}(1,2;E)$ be the family of odd symplectic partial flag manifold. In this paper we give a full description of the irreducible components of the degree $d$ curve neighborhood of any Schubert variety of $\mbox{IF}$, study their lattice structure, and prove a combinatorial version of Conjecture $\mathcal{O}.$
