Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of matrix Schubert varieties (Q6574269)

The flag variety \(\mathsf{Flags}_n\), the parameter space for complete flags of nested vector subspaces of \(\mathbb{C}^n\), has a complex cell decomposition given by its Schubert varieties. The geometry and combinatorics of this cell decomposition are of central importance in Schubert calculus. These Schubert varieties are closely related to certain generalized determinantal varieties \(X_w\) of \(n \times n\) matrices called matrix Schubert varieties. Matrix Schubert varieties are affine varieties arising in the Schubert calculus of the complete flag variety. O. Pechenik, D. Speyer, and A. Weigandt give a formula for the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of matrix Schubert varieties. They study the highest-degree homogeneous parts of Grothendieck polynomials, which are called Castelnuovo-Mumford polynomials. In addition to the regularity formula, they obtain formulae for the degrees of all Castelnuovo-Mumford polynomials and for their leading terms, as well as a complete description of when two Castelnuovo-Mumford polynomials agree up to a scalar multiple. The degree of the Grothendieck polynomial is a new permutation statistic which is called a certain index.