In this paper, we study the structure of the quantum cohomology ring of a
projective hypersurface with non-positive 1st Chern class. We prove a theorem
which suggests that the mirror transformation of the quantum cohomology of a
projective Calabi-Yau hypersurface has a close relation with the ring of
symmetric functions, or with Schur polynomials. With this result in mind, we
propose a generalized mirror transformation on the quantum cohomology of a
hypersurface with negative first Chern class and construct an explicit
prediction formula for three point Gromov-Witten invariants up to cubic
rational curves. We also construct a projective space resolution of the moduli
space of polynomial maps, which is in a good correspondence with the terms that
appear in the generalized mirror transformation.Comment: 32 pages, 3 figures, discussion in section 5 is refined, some minor
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