Positivity of Legendrian Thom polynomials

DOI10.4310/JDG/1324476753zbMATH Open1238.05275arXiv1005.1283OpenAlexW1589896461WikidataQ115170594 ScholiaQ115170594MaRDI QIDQ410094FDOQ410094

Piotr Pragacz, Andrzej Weber, Małgorzata Mikosz

Publication date: 17 April 2012

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study Legendrian singularities arising in complex contact geometry. We define a one-parameter family of bases in the ring of Legendrian characteristic classes such that any Legendrian Thom polynomial has nonnegative coefficients when expanded in these bases. The method uses a suitable Lagrange Grassmann bundle on the product of projective spaces. This is an extension of a nonnegativity result for Lagrangian Thom polynomials obtained by the authors previously. For a fixed pecialization, other specializations of the parameter lead to upper bounds for the coefficients of the given basis. One gets also upper bounds of the coefficients from the positivity of classical Thom polynomials (for mappings), obtained previously by the last two authors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1283

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrange Grassmann bundle on the product of projective spaces Legendrian singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15) Fourier series in special orthogonal functions (Legendre polynomials, Walsh functions, etc.) (42C10) Jets in global analysis (58A20)

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