On the positivity of high-degree Schur classes of an ample vector bundle (Q2070415)

In this paper, the author contributes to the body of literature on the Griffiths conjecture. This conjecture, although solved on the level of classes (see [\textit{W. Fulton} and \textit{R. Lazarsfeld}, Ann. Math. (2) 118, 35--60 (1983; Zbl 0537.14009)]), has remained open on the level of forms for decades. If \(E\) is an ample vector bundle on a smooth projective variety \(X\) of dimension \(n\), then the main result of this paper is ``that any Schur class of \(E\), lying in the cohomology group of bidegree \((n-1, n-1)\), has a representative which is strictly positive in the sense of smooth forms''. As a corollary, the author proves that if \(s_\lambda\) is the Schur polynomial for the partition \(\lambda\) with \(\vert\lambda \vert = k\) and \(H_1\) through \(H_{n-k-1}\) are very ample divisors, then \(s_\lambda(c_1(E),\dots,c_r(E))\cdot[H_1 \cap \dots \cap H_{n-k-1}] \) ``has a smooth representative which is strictly positive in the sense of \((n-1, n-1)\) forms''. Further, the author shows that these results hold for \(\mathbb{R}\)-twisted ample vector bundles.