The monotone conjecture for arbitrary Schubert problems on flag manifolds
Let with , and let be a Schubert problem for . For each permutation , let be its set of descents. A list is monotone with respect to when the map is monotone for an ordering compatible with some orientation of . General monotone conjecture. The intersection
is transverse and all its points of intersection are real whenever the points are monotone with respect to . The conjecture extends the Grassmannian formulation to arbitrary Schubert problems; the source notes examples with no monotone points and reports computational evidence, but the general assertion remains open.
References
Primary source
James Ruffo, Yuval Sivan, Evgenia Soprunova and Frank Sottile, “Experimentation and conjectures in the real Schubert calculus for flag manifolds”, arXiv:math/0507377 (2005).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0502040.
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