Smooth Schubert varieties and generalized Schubert polynomials in algebraic cobordism of Grassmannians (Q1703656)

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Smooth Schubert varieties and generalized Schubert polynomials in algebraic cobordism of Grassmannians
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    Smooth Schubert varieties and generalized Schubert polynomials in algebraic cobordism of Grassmannians (English)
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    7 March 2018
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    Consider the cohomology or Chow ring of a homogeneous space $G/P$. The classes of Schubert varieties of $G/P$ form a ``geometric'' basis. In Schubert calculus one studies the structure constants of the ring with respect to this basis -- c.f. Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. Much is known about cohomological (Chow) Schubert calculus, and even about its $K$-theory generalization. \par The paper under review studies an even more general cohomology theory, in fact the universal oriented algebraic cohomology theory: algebraic cobordism. In such generality the classes of Schubert varieties are not well defined, they depend on choices. The authors make their choices (Bott-Samelson resolution), and prove a formula for the product of the class of a smooth Schubert variety with an arbitrary Bott-Samelson class -- for type A Grassmannians. The last sections of the paper also establish some results on polynomials (``generalized Schubert polynomials'') representing Schubert varieties for hyperbolic formal group laws.
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    Schubert calculus
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    cobordism
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    Grassmannian
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    generalized cohomology
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