Schubert Class and cyclotomic nilHecke algebras

Abstract

Let $\ell, n$ be positive integers such that $\ell\geq n$. Let $\mathbb{G}_{n,\ell}$ be the Grassmannian which consists of the set of $n$-dimensional subspaces of $\mathbb{C}^{\ell}$. There is a $\mathbb{Z}$-graded algebra isomorphism between the cohomology $H^*(\mathbb{G}_{n,\ell},\mathbb{Z})$ of $\mathbb{G}_{n,\ell}$ and a natural $\mathbb{Z}$-form $B$ of the $\mathbb{Z}$-graded basic algebra of the type $A$ cyclotomic nilHecke algebra $H_{\ell,n}^{(0)}=\langleψ_1,\cdots,ψ_{n-1},y_1,\cdots,y_n\rangle$. In this paper, we show that the isomorphism can be chosen such that the image of each (geometrically defined) Schubert class $(a_1,\cdots,a_{n})$ coincides with the basis element $b_{\mathbfλ}$ constructed by Jun Hu and Xinfeng Liang by purely algebraic method, where $0\leq a_1\leq a_2\leq\cdots\leq a_{n}\leq \ell-n$ with $a_i\in\mathbb{Z}$ for each $i$, $\mathbfλ$ is the $\ell$-multipartition of $n$ associated to $(\ell+1-(a_{n}+n), \ell+1-(a_{n-1}+n-1),\cdots,\ell+1-(a_1+1))$. A similar correspondence between the Schubert class basis of the cohomology of the Grassmannian $\mathbb{G}_{\ell-n,\ell}$ and the $b_λ$'s basis of the natural $\mathbb{Z}$-form $B$ of the $\mathbb{Z}$-graded basic algebra of $H_{\ell,n}^{(0)}$ is also obtained. As an application, we obtain a second version of Giambelli formula for Schubert classes.

corrected a number of typos and added one corollary in the last section