Torus orbits on homogeneous varieties and Kac polynomials of quivers (Q667623)

Given \(k\) parabolic subgroups \(P_i\) of GL\(_r\), the group GL\(_r\) acts diagonally by left multiplication on the cartesian product of partial flag varieties (GL\(_r/P_1)\times \cdots \times (\)GL\(_r/P_k)\). Quiver varieties appear in papers of Crawley-Boevey and van den Bergh. These varieties are connected with the study of moduli spaces of meromorphic connections. In the present paper, it is shown that the counting polynomials of certain torus orbits in products of partial flag varieties coincides with the Kac polynomials of supernova quivers. The latter arise in the study of the moduli spaces of certain irregular meromorphic connections on trivial bundles over the projective line. These polynomials can be expressed as a specialization of Tutte polynomials of certain graphs. Connections with the Gel'fand-MacPherson correspondence are also discussed.