Conjecture on osculating Schubert families for classical flag manifolds

From papers

Let VV be a vector space with a bilinear form, and let G:=Aut(V,,)G:=\operatorname{Aut}(V,\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle) be respectively a general linear, orthogonal, or symplectic group according as the form is identically zero, nondegenerate symmetric, or nondegenerate alternating. Let γ\gamma be a real rational normal curve in VV whose osculating flags F(s)F_\bullet(s) are isotropic in the orthogonal and symplectic cases. Let PP be a parabolic subgroup of GG, let WW be the Weyl group, and let WPW_P be the associated parabolic subgroup. For wW/WPw\in W/W_P, let Xwγ{\mathcal X}_w\to\gamma be the family of Schubert varieties XwF(s)X_wF_\bullet(s) in G/PG/P. Osculating Schubert-family conjecture. For any wW/WPw\in W/W_P, the family Xwγ{\mathcal X}_w\to\gamma respects the Bruhat decomposition of G/PG/P given by the flag F(0)F_\bullet(0), and any collection of these families is in general position. The conjecture would extend the corresponding Grassmannian result of Eisenbud and Harris to flag varieties of the classical groups; the source notes that the relevant structure constants have few known formulas and that finding a combinatorial formula for them is open.

Progress summary

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Frank Sottile, “Some real and unreal enumerative geometry for flag manifolds”, arXiv:math/0002207 (2000).

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.