Elementary transversality in the Schubert calculus in any characteristic (Q1432735)

The author considers four spaces over an infinite field \(\mathbb K\). The first space is the Grassmannian \( G(r,n)\) of \(r-\)planes in \(\mathbb K ^n\). The second space is defined as follows. For a sequence \(r:0<r_1<r_2<\dots <r_{m}\) of integers, \(\mathbb F l_r\) is the variety of \(m\)-step flags \(E_1\subset E_2\subset\dots \subset E_m\subset \mathbb K ^n\) with \(\dim E_i=r_i\). The third space is the orthogonal Grassmannian \(OG(r,n)\) of \(r-\)dimensional isotropic subspaces of \((\mathbb K ^n,\langle.,.\rangle)\), where \(\langle.,.\rangle\) is a non-degenerate split symmetric bilinear form on \(\mathbb K ^n\), \(\text{char\,}\mathbb K \neq 2\) and \(n=2r+1\) is odd. The fourth space is the space \(\mathcal M^{q}_{r,n}\) of maps \(M:\mathbb P^1\rightarrow G(r,n)\) with \({\deg}M=q\geq 0\). The author describes simple Schubert subvarieties of the considered spaces and proves the following result. {Let \(X\) be either \( G(r,n),\quad \mathbb F l_r\), \(O G(r,n)\) or \(\mathcal M^{q}_{r,n}\) and let \(Z\subset X\) be any Schubert variety of \(X\). Then general simple Schubert varieties \(Y_1,Y_2,\dots ,Y_{\dim Z}\) meet \(Z\) transversally on \(X\).} A similar result for the case \(\mathbb K =\mathbb R\) is also proved.