Euler obstructions for the Lagrangian Grassmannian

DOI10.5802/ALCO.211zbMATH Open1485.14095arXiv2105.08823OpenAlexW3162521235MaRDI QIDQ2136405FDOQ2136405

Paul LeVan, Claudiu Raicu

Publication date: 10 May 2022

Published in: Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove a case of a positivity conjecture of Mihalcea-Singh, concerned with the local Euler obstructions associated to the Schubert stratification of the Lagrangian Grassmannian LG(n,2n). Combined with work of Aluffi-Mihalcea-Sch"urmann-Su, this further implies the positivity of the Mather classes for Schubert varieties in LG(n,2n), which Mihalcea-Singh had verified for the other cominuscule spaces of classical Lie type. Building on the work of Boe and Fu, we give a positive recursion for the local Euler obstructions, and use it to show that they provide a positive count of admissible labelings of certain trees, analogous to the ones describing Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials. Unlike in the case of the Grassmannians in types A and D, for LG(n,2n) the Euler obstructions e_{y,w} may vanish for certain pairs (y,w) with y <= w in the Bruhat order. Our combinatorial description allows us to classify all the pairs (y,w) for which e_{y,w}=0. Restricting to the big opposite cell in LG(n,2n), which is naturally identified with the space of n x n symmetric matrices, we recover the formulas for the local Euler obstructions associated with the matrix rank stratification.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08823

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zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian Grassmannianlocal Euler obstructionsSchubert stratificationtree labelings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Determinantal varieties (14M12) Local complex singularities (32S05) Stratifications; constructible sheaves; intersection cohomology (complex-analytic aspects) (32S60)

Cites Work

• Chern classes for singular algebraic varieties
• Standard monomial theory. Invariant theoretic approach
• Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials for Hermitian Symmetric Spaces
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• Vanishing cycles on Grassmannians
• Characteristic Cycles in Hermitian Symmetric Spaces
• Mather classes and conormal spaces of Schubert varieties in cominuscule spaces

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Uses Software

• Macaulay2

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