Positivity of Thom polynomials and Schubert calculus

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Authors Piotr Pragacz

Publication date 20 November 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.2573

zbMATH Keywords

\(\tilde Q\)-functionample vector bundleGrassmannianLagrangian Grassmanniannonnegative cyclepositive polynomialpositivitySchubert classSchur functionsingularity classThom polynomialvector bundle generated by its global sections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15) Global theory of complex singularities; cohomological properties (32S20) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

Abstract: We describe the positivity of Thom polynomials of singularities of maps, Lagrangian Thom polynomials and Legendrian Thom polynomials. We show that these positivities come from Schubert calculus.

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