Amplituhedron cells and Stanley symmetric functions (Q281139)

The finite stratification of the Grassmanninan \(\mathrm{Gr}(k,n)\) to so-called positroid varieties \(\Pi_f\) is a refinement of the usual Schubert stratification. Knutson-Lam-Speyer computed that the cohomology class of such a variety \(\Pi_f\) is represented by the affine Stanley symmetric function \(\tilde{F}_f\). The paper under review extends this result to the image of a positroid variety under the (rational) map \(Z_{\mathrm{Gr}}:\mathrm{Gr}(k,n)\to \mathrm{Gr}(k,k+m)\) induced by a linear map \(Z\) from \(n\) dimensions to \(k+m\) dimensions. The closure of the image of \(\Pi_f\) is denoted by \(Y_f\), and is called an amplituhedron variety (when the dimension does not drop under the map). The result of the present paper is that the cohomology class of \(Y_f\) is a truncated version of \(\tilde{F}_f\). Truncation is defined through the shape of the partitions occuring in a Schur expansion.