Local Euler obstructions and Chern-Mather classes of determinantal varieties

DOI10.1080/00927872.2021.1909608MaRDI QIDQ5159800zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xiping Zhang

Publication date 28 October 2021

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.02032

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classdeterminantal varietylocal Euler obstruction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17)

Abstract: For $mgeqn$, Let $K$ be an algebraic closed base field, and define $a{u}_{m,n,k}$ to be the set of $mimesn$ matrices over $K$ with kernel dimension $geqk$. This is a projective subvariety of $mathbb{P}^{mn-1}$, and is usually called determinantal variety. In most cases $a{u}_{m,n,k}$ is singular with singular locus $a{u}_{m,n,k+1}$. In this paper we compute the local Euler obstruction of $a{u}_{m,n,k}$, and we prove that the characteristic cycle of the intersection cohomology complex of $a{u}_{m,n,k}$ is irreducible. We also give an explicit formula for the Chern-Mather class of $a{u}_{m,n,k}$ as a class in projective space. The irreducibility of the intersection cohomology characteristic cycle follows from the explicit computation of the local Euler obstruction, a study of the `Tjurina transforms' of determinantal varieties, and the Kashiwara-Dubson's microlocal index theorem. Our explicit formulas are based on calculations of degrees of certain Chern classes of the universal bundles over the Grassmannian. We use The Schubert 2 package in Macaulay2 to exhibit examples of the Chern-Mather class and the class of the characteristic cycle of $a{u}_{m,n,k}$ for some small values of $m,n,k$. Over the complex numbers, the local Euler obstruction of $a{u}_{m,n,k}$ was recently computed by N.~Grulha, T.~Gaffney and M.~Ruas by methods in complex geometry.

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