Positivity conjecture for Chern–Schwartz–MacPherson classes of Schubert cells

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Let α‾{\underline\alpha} be a partition indexing a Schubert variety S(α‾){\mathbb{S}}({\underline\alpha}) and its Schubert cell S(α‾)∘{\mathbb{S}}({\underline\alpha})^\circ. Write the Chern–Schwartz–MacPherson class in the Schubert basis as

cSM(S(α‾)∘)=∑β‾≤α‾γα‾,β‾[S(β‾)].c_{\text{SM}}({\mathbb{S}}({\underline\alpha})^\circ)=\sum_{{\underline\beta}\leq {\underline\alpha}}\gamma_{{\underline\alpha},{\underline\beta}}[{\mathbb{S}}({\underline\beta})].

Positivity conjecture. For all α‾{\underline\alpha}, cSM(S(α‾)∘)∈A∗(S(α‾))c_{\text{SM}}({\mathbb{S}}({\underline\alpha})^\circ)\in A_*({\mathbb{S}}({\underline\alpha})) is represented by an effective cycle. Equivalently, the coefficients γα‾,β‾\gamma_{{\underline\alpha},{\underline\beta}} are nonnegative for all β‾≤α‾{\underline\beta}\leq {\underline\alpha}. Substantial computer experimentation suggests this positivity, but the source gives no proof or resolution of the conjecture.

References

Primary source

Paolo Aluffi and Leonardo Constantin Mihalcea, “Chern classes of Schubert cells and varieties”, arXiv:math/0607752 (2006).

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