A compactly supported formula for equivariant localization and simplicial complexes of Białynicki-Birula decompositions (Q547852)

The Duistermaat-Heckman formula for the induced measure on a moment polytope may be considered as the Fourier transform of the Atiyah-Bott/Berline-Vergne localization formula applied to the \(T\)-equivariant Liouville class. \textit{A.~Knutson} [Invent. Math. 135, No. 1, 185--200 (1999; Zbl 0971.58014)] gave a formula for the Duistermaat-Heckman measure whose terms are all positive and compactly supported, using a Morse decomposition. Its derivation required that the stable and unstable Morse strata intersect transversely. In this paper, the later restrictive condition is removed, at the cost of working with an ``iterated'' Morse (or Bialynicki-Birula) decomposition. This leads in a natural way to a simplicial complex of ``closure chains'', which in the toric variety case is just a pulling triangulation of the moment polytope. To handle the singularities of the closed strata, the author restricts to the projective algebraic setting. Conversely, this allows to work from the beginning with singular projective schemes over algebraically closed ground fields.