A Geometrical approach to Gordan--Noether's and Franchetta's contributions to a question posed by Hesse.
A Pieri-type formula for even orthogonal Grassmannians
We study the cohomology ring of the Grassmannian G of isotropic n-subspaces of a complex 2m-dimensional vector space, endowed with a nondegenerate orthogonal form (here 1 ≤ n < m). We state and prove a formula giving the Schubert class decomposition of the cohomology products in H*(G) of general Schubert classes by "special Schubert classes", i.e. the Chern classes of the dual of the tautological vector bundle of rank n on G. We discuss some related properties of reduced decompositions of "barred...
Asymptotic behaviour of numerical invariants of algebraic varieties
We show that if the degree of a nonsingular projective variety is high enough, maximization of any of the most important numerical invariants, such as class, Betti number, and any of the Chern or middle Hodge numbers, leads to the same class of extremal varieties. Moreover, asymptotically (say, for varieties whose total Betti number is big enough) the ratio of any two of these invariants tends to a well-defined constant.
Beiträge zur analytischen Geometrie des Raumes, insbesondere zur Theorie der Flächen 3ten Grades mit 4 Doppelpunkten und der Steiner'schen Flächen, sowie zur Lehre von den Raumcurven
Combinatorial integers and Schubert calculus in the integral cohomology ring of infinite smooth flag manifolds.
Descent-cycling in Schubert calculus.
Double Schubert polynomials and degeneracy loci for the classical groups
We propose a theory of double Schubert polynomials for the Lie types , , which naturally extends the family of Lascoux and Schützenberger in type . These polynomials satisfy positivity, orthogonality and stability properties, and represent the classes of Schubert varieties and degeneracy loci of vector bundles. When is a maximal Grassmannian element of the Weyl group, can be expressed in terms of Schur-type determinants and Pfaffians, in analogy with the type formula of Kempf and Laksov....
Eigenvalues of sums of hermitian matrices
Experimentation and conjectures in the real Schubert calculus for flag manifolds.
Finiteness of cominuscule quantum -theory
The product of two Schubert classes in the quantum -theory ring of a homogeneous space is a formal power series with coefficients in the Grothendieck ring of algebraic vector bundles on . We show that if is cominuscule, then this power series has only finitely many non-zero terms. The proof is based on a geometric study of boundary Gromov-Witten varieties in the Kontsevich moduli space, consisting of stable maps to that take the marked points to general Schubert varieties and whose domains...
Grassmann defective surfaces
A projective variety is -defective if the Grassmannian of lines contained in the span of independent points on has dimension less than the expected one. In the present paper, which is inspired by classical work of Alessandro Terracini, we prove a criterion of -defectivity for algebraic surfaces and we discuss its applications to Veronese embeddings and to rational normal scrolls.
Newton binomial formulas in Schubert calculus.
On spinor varieties and their secants.
On vanishing inflection points of plane curves
We study the local behaviour of inflection points of families of plane curves in the projective plane. We develop normal forms and versal deformation concepts for holomorphic function germs which take into account the inflection points of the fibres of . We give a classification of such function- germs which is a projective analog of Arnold’s A,D,E classification. We compute the versal deformation with respect to inflections of Morse function-germs.
Permutations with Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial . With an appendix by Sara Billey and Jonathan Weed.
Positivity of Schur function expansions of Thom polynomials
Combining the approach to Thom polynomials via classifying spaces of singularities with the Fulton-Lazarsfeld theory of cone classes and positive polynomials for ample vector bundles, we show that the coefficients of the Schur function expansions of the Thom polynomials of stable singularities are nonnegative with positive sum.
Positivity of Thom polynomials II: the Lagrange singularities
We study Thom polynomials associated with Lagrange singularities. We expand them in the basis of Q̃-functions. This basis plays a key role in the Schubert calculus of isotropic Grassmannians. We prove that the Q̃-function expansions of the Thom polynomials of Lagrange singularities always have nonnegative coefficients. This is an analog of a result on the Thom polynomials of mapping singularities and Schur S-functions, established formerly by the last two authors.
Real quartic surfaces containing 16 skew lines.
Real Schubert calculus: polynomial systems and a conjecture of Shapiro and Shapiro.
Schubert and Grothendieck: a bidecennial balance. (Schubert et Grothendieck: un bilan bidécennal.)