Non-equivariant positivity conjecture for CSM classes of Schubert cells

Let G/BG/B be the flag variety of a reductive group GG over C\mathbb{C}, with BB a fixed Borel subgroup, and let WW be its Weyl group. For wWw\in W, write Y(w)=BwB/BY(w)^\circ=B^-wB/B for the opposite Schubert cell and Y(w)=Y(w)Y(w)=\overline{Y(w)^\circ} for its opposite Schubert variety. Here cSMc_{\mathrm{SM}} denotes the Chern–Schwartz–MacPherson class and [Y(v)][Y(v)] the Schubert-variety class. Non-equivariant positivity conjecture. For u,vWu,v\in W,

cSM(Y(u))[Y(v)]wWZ0cSM(Y(w)),c_{\mathrm{SM}}(Y(u)^\circ)\cdot [Y(v)]\in\sum_{w\in W}\mathbb{Z}_{\geq0}\cdot c_{\mathrm{SM}}(Y(w)^\circ),

where Z0\mathbb{Z}_{\geq0} is the set of nonnegative integers. The conjecture is confirmed in type AA for vv a Grassmannian permutation of hook shape and has been checked for several small Weyl groups; it remains open in general.

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Neil J. Y. Fan, Peter L. Guo and Rui Xiong, “Pieri and Murnaghan–Nakayama type Rules for Chern classes of Schubert Cells”, arXiv:2211.06802 (2022).

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