Structure constants for Chern classes of Schubert cells (Q2031703): Difference between revisions

Consider the cohomology ring of a homogeneous space, namely, of a partial flag variety. The variety is stratified to geometrically relevant subvarieties, the Schubert varieties. If some version of a characteristic class is assigned to those Schubert varieties, they form a basis in the cohomology ring. The structure constants of the ring with respect to this basis are important numbers (polynomials in the equivariant setting) in geometry and representation theory. The paper under review gives a formula for such structure constants, when the characteristic class is the so-called Segre-Schwartz-MacPherson characteristic class (which is explicitly calculable from the so-called Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson charactersitic class). This characteristic class can be regarded as a 1-parameter deformation of the fundamental class, and it is known to (essentially) coincide with the Maulik-Okounkov ``stable envelope class'' for the cotangent bundle of the partial flag variety. The structure constant formula presented in this paper is of ``localization flavor'': it is a sum (symmetrization) of rational functions whose apparent poles diappear in the summation.