A rim-hook rule for quiver flag varieties

Abstract: The rim-hook rule for quantum cohomology of the Grassmannian allows one to reduce quantum calculations to classical calculations in the cohomology of the Grassmannian. We use the Abelian/non-Abelian correspondence for cohomology to prove a rim-hook removal rule for the cohomology of quiver flag varieties. Quiver flag varieties are generalisations of type A flag varieties; this result is new even in the flag case. This gives an effective way of computing products in their cohomology, reducing computations to that in the cohomology ring of the Grassmannian. We then prove a quantum rim-hook rule for Fano quiver flag varieties (including type A flag varieties). As a corollary, we see that the Gu--Sharpe mirror to a Fano quiver flag variety computes its quantum cohomology.