English

Filtrations and recursions for Schubert modules

Combinatorics 2026-03-31 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

Revisiting Kra\'skiewicz and Pragacz's construction of Schubert modules, we provide a new proof that their characters are equal to Schubert polynomials. The main innovation is a representation-theoretic interpretation of a recurrence relation for Schubert polynomials recently discovered by Nadeau, Spink, and Tewari. Along the way, we review several related constructions, and show that the Nadeau-Spink-Tewari recursion determines the characters of flagged Schur modules coming from the broader classes of "transparent" and "translucent" diagrams. We conclude with a conjecture concerning the Schubert positivity of the characters of transparent diagrams.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2408.16694,
  title  = {Filtrations and recursions for Schubert modules},
  author = {David Anderson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16694},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

39 pages, many figures; v2 adds a positivity conjecture and corrects the functorial definition of flagged Schur modules, along with other minor fixes. To appear in Selecta Mathematica

R2 v1 2026-06-28T18:27:55.607Z