On combinatorics of quiver component formulas (Q1781824)

The author provides an alternative proof of the ``component formula'' of Knutson, Miller and Shimozono, replacing the ``Gröbner degeneration part'' of their original argument by a combinatorial result (Theorem 1 in the paper). Moreover, he outlines a geometric project suggested by the striking correspondence between the ``splitting'' formula for the ordinary Schubert polynomials of Lascoux and Schützenberger in terms of quiver coefficients (stated as Theorem 2 in the paper), and an analogous formula (Theorem 3 in the paper) for the BCD-Schubert polynomials of Billey and Haiman in terms of positive combinatorial coefficients.