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Oriented Schubert calculus in Chow-Witt rings of Grassmannians

Algebraic Geometry 2018-08-23 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We apply the previous calculations of Chow-Witt rings of Grassmannians to develop an oriented analogue of the classical Schubert calculus. As a result, we get complete diagrammatic descriptions of the ring structure in Chow-Witt rings and twisted Witt groups. In the resulting arithmetic refinements of Schubert calculus, the multiplicity of a solution subspace is a quadratic form encoding additional orientation information. We also discuss a couple of applications, such as a Chow-Witt version of the signed count of balanced subspaces of Feh\'er and Matszangosz.

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@article{arxiv.1808.07296,
  title  = {Oriented Schubert calculus in Chow-Witt rings of Grassmannians},
  author = {Matthias Wendt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.07296},
  year   = {2018}
}

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44 pages. Comments very welcome