Richmond–Slofstra's Grassmannian BP-decomposition conjecture

Let WW be a Coxeter group and let wWw\in W be rationally smooth. A Grassmannian BP decomposition is a BP decomposition of ww with the Grassmannian property described in the paper.

Richmond–Slofstra's conjecture. The element ww has a Grassmannian BP decomposition.

In finite type, rationally smooth Schubert varieties can be expressed as iterated bundles of Grassmannian Schubert varieties. The conjecture asks whether this phenomenon extends to arbitrary Coxeter groups and remains open in the stated generality.

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Christian Gaetz and Yibo Gao, “Billey-Postnikov posets, rationally smooth Schubert varieties, and Poincaré duality”, arXiv:2512.08168 (2026).

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