Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes of degeneracy loci (Q1785089)

The authors' goal is to compute the Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson and Segre-Schwartz-MacPherson classes of the orbits of a certain representation called the matrix Schubert cells. More precisely, let \(k\le n\) be nonnegative integers. Let us consider the group \(GL_k(\mathbb C)\times B_n^-\) acting on \(\text{Hom}(\mathbb C^k; \mathbb C^n)\) by \((A,B)\cdot M = BMA^{-1}\), where \(B_n^-\) denotes the Borel subgroup of \(n\times n\) lower triangular matrices. The finitely many orbits of this action are parametrized by \(d\)-element subsets \(J = \{j_1 < \dots < j_d\} \subset \{1, \dots, n\}\) where \(d \le k\). The corresponding orbits, denoted by \(\Omega_J\), are called matrix Schubert cells and their closures are usually called matrix Schubert varieties (see [\textit{L. M. Fehér} and \textit{R. Rimányi}, Cent. Eur. J. Math. 1, No. 4, 418--434 (2003; Zbl 1038.57008)]). Let us fix \(I\subset \{1,\dots,k\}\). The authors prove that the equivariant Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson class of \(\Omega_I\) is equal to the value of the weight function \(W_I(\alpha, \beta)\), considered in [\textit{V. Tarasov} and \textit{A. Varchenko}, Invent. Math. 128, No. 3, 501--588 (1997; Zbl 0877.33013)] or [\textit{R. Rimányi} and \textit{A. Varchenko}, Impanga 15. EMS Series of Congress Reports 225--235 (2018; Zbl 1391.14108)], where \(\alpha = (\alpha_1, \dots, \alpha_k)\) and \(\beta = (\beta_1, \dots, \beta_n)\) are suitable partitions. In turn, the weight function \(W_I(\alpha, \beta)\) can be expressed in terms of appropriated symmetric functions, which can be computed as values of the ``iterated residues'' of some generating functions parameterized by partitions, and so on. In a similar same way it is possible to compute the Segre-Schwartz-MacPherson classes. As an application, the authors perform the corresponding calculations and write out the exact formulas for these classes in the case of \(A_2\) quiver representation.