Positivity of Segre-MacPherson classes

DOI10.1017/9781108877831.001zbMATH Open1489.14013arXiv1902.00762OpenAlexW2911257994MaRDI QIDQ5081891FDOQ5081891

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)

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.

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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