Characteristic classes of Borel orbits of square-zero upper-triangular matrices

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2022.01.031MaRDI QIDQ2667914zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Piotr Rudnicki, Andrzej Weber

Publication date 2 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03598

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classesmotivic Chern classesnilpotent orbitsRimányi-Tarasov-Varchenko weight function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15) Coadjoint orbits; nilpotent varieties (17B08) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05)

Abstract: Anna Melnikov provided a parametrization of Borel orbits in the affine variety of square-zero $nimesn$ matrices by the set of involutions in the symmetric group. A related combinatorics leads to a construction a Bott-Samelson type resolution of the orbit closures. This allows to compute cohomological and K-theoretic invariants of the orbits: fundamental classes, Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes and motivic Chern classes in torus-equivariant theories. The formulas are given in terms of Demazure-Lusztig operations. The case of square-zero upper-triangular matrices is reach enough to include information about cohomological and K-theoretic classes of the double Borel orbits in $Hom(mathbb{C}^k,mathbb{C}^m)$ for $k+m=n$. We recall the relation with double Schubert polynomials and show analogous interpretation of Rim'anyi-Tarasov-Varchenko trigonometric weight function.

Review text

Various versions of characteristic classes assign elements in \(H^*_T(M)\) or \(K_T(M)\) to a possibly singular subvariety \(\Sigma\) in the smooth ambient space \(M\). These classes measure how singularities are forced in global families, and they are directly related with enumerative geometry. The paper under review studies certain Borel orbit closures in the vector space of upper triangular matrices \(N\). More precisely, it turns out that the square-zero upper triangular matrices is the union of finitely many Borel orbits. The authors calculate the (equivariant) cohomological and \(K\)-theoretic fundamental classes, the Chern-Schwartz-McPherson class (in \(H_T^*\)), and the motivic Chern class (in \(K_T\)) of these orbits. The method they use is an iterative resolution similar to the Bott-Samelson resolution. In the second part of the paper an intriguing relation is explored. On the one hand we have the results of the first half of the paper for \(2n \times 2n\) matrices. On the other hand there is the Schubert Calculus on double Borel orbits on \(n \times n\) matrices put into the top right corner of the \(2n \times 2n\) matrix. Up to some factors and identifications the characteristic class theory of the two settings turn out to be the same. In this approach the two sets of variables of the Rimanyi-Tarasov-Varchenko weight function, as well as the right and left operations in the Schubert Calculus of Hom\((C^n,C^n)\) are considered on an equal footing.

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