The transversality conjecture for monotone Grassmannian Schubert problems

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Let a=(a1<⋯<ak)a=(a_1<\dotsb<a_k) and nn be positive integers with ak<na_k<n. Let WaW^a index Schubert varieties on Fℓ(a;n)\mathbb F\ell(a;n), and let w1,…,wm∈Waw_1,\dotsc,w_m\in W^a be data for a Schubert problem with every wiw_i Grassmannian. For ti∈RP1t_i\in\mathbb R\mathbb P^1, let Xwi(ti)X_{w_i}(t_i) denote the corresponding Schubert variety for the osculating flag at tit_i. If the points t1,…,tmt_1,\dotsc,t_m are monotone with respect to w1,…,wmw_1,\dotsc,w_m, then the transversality conjecture. The intersection

Xw1(t1)∩Xw2(t2)∩⋯∩Xwm(tm)X_{w_1}(t_1)\cap X_{w_2}(t_2)\cap\dotsb\cap X_{w_m}(t_m)

is transverse. This is explicitly presented as a stronger conjecture obtained by discarding the reality conclusion from the monotone conjecture; the source gives experimental support but no general proof.

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James Ruffo, Yuval Sivan, Evgenia Soprunova and Frank Sottile, “Experimentation and conjectures in the real Schubert calculus for flag manifolds (extended abstract)”, arXiv:math/0502040 (2005).

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