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In this paper, we study the subvarieties of a complex flag variety that are invariant under the action of a maximal torus. Using combinatorial techniques derived from matroid theory, we introduce a decomposition of this variety into affine,…

Characteristic classes of Schubert varieties can be used to study the geometry and the combinatorics of homogeneous spaces. We prove a relation between elliptic classes of Schubert varieties on a generalized full flag variety and those on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Richard Rimanyi , Andrzej Weber

We prove an explicit inverse Chevalley formula in the equivariant $K$-theory of semi-infinite flag manifolds of simply-laced type. By an inverse Chevalley formula, we mean a formula for the product of an equivariant scalar with a Schubert…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Takafumi Kouno , Satoshi Naito , Daniel Orr , Daisuke Sagaki

Gelfand-Tsetlin polytopes are classical objects in algebraic combinatorics arising in the representation theory of $\mathfrak{gl}_n(\mathbb{C})$. The integer point transform of the Gelfand-Tsetlin polytope $\mathrm{GT}(\lambda)$ projects to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Ricky Ini Liu , Karola Mészáros , Avery St. Dizier

We propose to study the quantum Schubert calculus for Schubert varieties, and investigate the smooth Schubert divisors X of the complete flag variety Fl_n. We provide a Borel-type ring presentation of the quantum cohomology of X. We derive…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Changzheng Li , Jiayu Song , Rui Xiong , Mingzhi Yang

A Gelfand-Cetlin system is a completely integrable system defined on a partial flag manifold whose image is a rational convex polytope called a Gelfand-Cetlin polytope. Motivated by the study of Nishinou-Nohara-Ueda on the Floer theory of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Yunhyung Cho , Yoosik Kim , Yong-Geun Oh

We construct Schubert line defects in the 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauged linear sigma model (GLSM) with target space a partial flag manifold $X={\rm Fl}({\boldsymbol{k}};n)$, generalizing our construction for complete flag…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Cyril Closset , Wei Gu , Osama Khlaif , Eric Sharpe , Hao Zhang , Hao Zou

We study Schubert polynomials using geometry of infinite-dimensional flag varieties and degeneracy loci. Applications include Graham-positivity of coefficients appearing in equivariant coproduct formulas and expansions of back-stable and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-19 David Anderson

This paper explores the possible use of Schubert cells and Schubert varieties in finite geometry, particularly in regard to the question of whether these objects might be a source of understanding of ovoids or provide new examples. The main…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-26 John Bamberg , Arun Ram , Jon Xu

Extending results of Wyser, we determine formulas for the equivariant cohomology classes of closed orbits of certain families of spherical subgroups of $GL_n$ on the flag variety $GL_n/B$. Putting this together with a slight extension of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Mahir Bilen Can , Michael Joyce , Benjamin Wyser

We describe the integral cohomology rings of the flag manifolds of types B_n, D_n, G_2 and F_4 in terms of their Schubert classes. The main tool is the divided difference operators of Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand and Demazure. As an…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-07-25 Masaki Nakagawa

Complex geometric properties of the orbits of a non-compact real form $G_0$ in a flag manifold $Z=G/Q$ of a complex semi-simple groups $G=G_0^\mathbb C$ are studied. Schubert varieties are used to construct a complex submanifold with…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Huckleberry , J. A. Wolf

The main classical result of Schubert calculus is that multiplication rules for the basis of Schubert cycles inside the cohomology ring of the Grassmannian $G(n,m)$ are the same as multiplication rules for the basis of Schur polynomials in…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Antoine Labelle

Let X be the flag variety of the symplectic group. We propose a theory of combinatorially explicit Schubert polynomials which represent the Schubert classes in the Borel presentation of the cohomology ring of X. We use these polynomials to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Harry Tamvakis

In this paper we investigate the idea of a tropical critical point of the superpotential for the full flag variety of type A. Recall that associated to an irreducible representation of G=SLn(C) are various polytopes whose integral points…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Jamie Judd

We discuss a relationship between Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes for Schubert cells in flag manifolds, Fomin-Kirillov algebra, and the generalized nil-Hecke algebra. We show that nonnegativity conjecture in Fomin-Kirillov algebra implies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Seung Jin Lee

Relation Gelfand-Tsetlin $\mathfrak{gl}_n$-modules were introduced in [FRZ19], and are determined by some special directed graphs and Gelfand-Tsetlin characters. In this work we constructed polyhedra associated with the class of relation…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Germán Benitez , Luis Enrique Ramírez

We give an explicit combinatorial Chevalley-type formula for the equivariant K-theory of generalized flag varieties G/P which is a direct generalization of the classical Chevalley formula. Our formula implies a simple combinatorial model…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Cristian Lenart , Alexander Postnikov

This paper is a study of the polyhedral geometry of Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns arising in the representation theory $\mathfrak{gl}_n \C$ and algebraic combinatorics. We present a combinatorial characterization of the vertices and a method to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jesús A. De Loera , Tyrrell B. McAllister

We connect generalized permutahedra with Schubert calculus. Thereby, we give sufficient vanishing criteria for Schubert intersection numbers of the flag variety. Our argument utilizes recent developments in the study of Schubitopes, which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Avery St. Dizier , Alexander Yong