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Characteristic classes of Borel orbits of square-zero upper-triangular matrices

Algebraic Geometry 2022-04-13 v5 Algebraic Topology Representation Theory

Abstract

Anna Melnikov provided a parametrization of Borel orbits in the affine variety of square-zero n×nn \times n matrices by the set of involutions in the symmetric group. A related combinatorics leads to a construction a Bott-Samelson type resolution of the orbit closures. This allows to compute cohomological and K-theoretic invariants of the orbits: fundamental classes, Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes and motivic Chern classes in torus-equivariant theories. The formulas are given in terms of Demazure-Lusztig operations. The case of square-zero upper-triangular matrices is reach enough to include information about cohomological and K-theoretic classes of the double Borel orbits in Hom(Ck,Cm)Hom(\mathbb C^k,\mathbb C^m) for k+m=nk+m=n. We recall the relation with double Schubert polynomials and show analogous interpretation of Rim\'anyi-Tarasov-Varchenko trigonometric weight function.

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@article{arxiv.2108.03598,
  title  = {Characteristic classes of Borel orbits of square-zero upper-triangular matrices},
  author = {Piotr Rudnicki and Andrzej Weber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.03598},
  year   = {2022}
}

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29 pages

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