A presentation of the torus-equivariant quantum $K$-theory ring of flag manifolds of type $A$, Part II: quantum double Grothendieck polynomials

Abstract: In our previous paper, we gave a presentation of the torus-equivariant quantum $K$-theory ring $QK_{H}(Fl_{n+1})$ of the (full) flag manifold $Fl_{n+1}$ of type $A_{n}$ as a quotient of a polynomial ring by an explicit ideal. In this paper, we prove that quantum double Grothendieck polynomials, introduced by Lenart-Maeno, represent the corresponding (opposite) Schubert classes in the quantum $K$-theory ring $QK_{H}(Fl_{n+1})$ under this presentation. The main ingredient in our proof is an explicit formula expressing the semi-infinite Schubert class associated to the longest element of the finite Weyl group, which is proved by making use of the general Chevalley formula for the torus-equivariant $K$-group of the semi-infinite flag manifold associated to $SL_{n+1}(\mathbb{C})$.