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Abstract. The Peterson variety is a subvariety of the flag manifold G/B equipped with an action of a one-dimensional torus, and a torus invariant paving by affine cells, called Peterson cells. We prove that the equivariant pull-backs of Schubert classes indexed by arbitrary Coxeter elements are dual (up to an intersection multiplicity) to the fundamental classes of Peterson cell closures. Dividing these classes by the intersec- tion multiplicities yields a Z-basis for the equivariant cohomology of the Peterson variety. We prove several properties of this basis, including a Graham positivity property for its structure constants, and stability with respect to inclusion in a larger Peterson variety. We also find for- mulae for intersection multiplicities with Peterson classes. This explains geometrically, in arbitrary Lie type, recent positivity statements proved in type A by Goldin and Gorbutt.
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On positivity for the Peterson variety
We aim in this manuscript to describe a specific notion of geomet- ric positivity that manifests in cohomology rings associated to the flag variety G/B and, in some cases, to subvarieties of G/B. We offer an exposition on the the well-known geometric basis of the homology of G/B provided by Schubert varieties, whose dual basis in cohomology has nonnegative structure constants. In recent work [R. Goldin, L. Mihalcea, and R. Singh, Positivity of Peterson Schubert Calculus, arXiv2106.10372] we showed that the equivariant cohomology of Peterson varieties satisfies a positivity phenomenon similar to that for Schubert calculus for G/B. Here we explain how this positivity extends to this particular nilpotent Hessenberg variety, and offer some open questions about the ingredients for extending positivity results to other Hessenberg varieties.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2152312
- PAR ID:
- 10600675
- Editor(s):
- Tu, Loring W
- Publisher / Repository:
- Contemporary Mathematics, American Mathematical Society
- Date Published:
- Volume:
- 808
- ISSN:
- 978-1-4704-7180-4
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- equivariant cohomology Peterson varieties
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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