On equivariant oriented cohomology of Bott-Samelson varieties (Q2075860)

The paper under review studies equivariant Schubert calculus for general (oriented) cohomology theories. The classical (cohomology, \(K\) theory) level of such questions is in the crossroads of geometry, representation theory, and algebraic combinatorics. It turns out that for more general cohomology theories key geometric objects are not necessarily the classical Schubert varieties, but their Bott-Samelson resolutions. The main results of the paper can be interpreted as a GKM description of the general cohomology of these Bott-Samelson resolutions. Namely, the authors describe the torus fixed point restrictions of a distinguished basis. Their formulas imply the injectivity of the fixed-point localization map. Moreover, they describe the image of that map in the expected GKM style. The authors also provide connection to more standard point-of-views: they provide formulas for the ``Schubert classes'' as opposed to the ``Bott-Samelson classes'', that is they calculate the push-forward images of the distinguished basis, that now live in the general cohomology of flag varieties. The results promise applications in the emerging branch of geometric representation theory that studies general cohomologies.