Positivity of Segre-MacPherson classes

DOI10.1017/9781108877831.001MaRDI QIDQ5081891zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paolo Aluffi, Leonardo C. Mihalcea, Jörg Schürmann, Changjian Su

Publication date 17 June 2022

Published in Facets of Algebraic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00762

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17)

Abstract: Let $X$ be a complex nonsingular variety with globally generated tangent bundle. We prove that the signed Segre-MacPherson (SM) class of a constructible function on $X$ with effective characteristic cycle is effective. This observation has a surprising number of applications to positivity questions in classical situations, unifying previous results in the literature and yielding several new results. We survey a selection of such results in this paper. For example, we prove general effectivity results for SM classes of subvarieties which admit proper (semi-)small resolutions and for regular or affine embeddings. Among these, we mention the effectivity of (signed) Segre-Milnor classes of complete intersections if $X$ is projective and an alternation property for SM classes of Schubert cells in flag manifolds; the latter result proves and generalizes a variant of a conjecture of Feh'er and Rim'anyi. Among other applications we prove the positivity of Behrend's Donaldson-Thomas invariant for a closed subvariety of an abelian variety and the signed-effectivity of the intersection homology Chern class of the theta divisor of a non-hyperelliptic curve; and we extend the (known) non-negativity of the Euler characteristic of perverse sheaves on a semi-abelian variety to more general varieties dominating an abelian variety.

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