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Nov 16, 2009 at 20:28 comment added Ilya Nikokoshev @John: it might be a good idea to post another question -- more people will be able to answer that way.
Nov 16, 2009 at 20:11 vote accept John McCarthy
Nov 16, 2009 at 19:09 comment added David E Speyer Don't have time to do G(k,n) in general. Here's a small example: H^4(G(2,4)) is spanned by two Schubert classes: X:=[20] and Y:=[11]. The pairing on them has matrix ((0,1),(1,0)). Taking omega to be the chern class of the standard Plucker embedding, omega^2 H^0 is spanned by X+Y. Also, omega H^1 is spanned by X+Y. The statement should be that the pairing is positive definite on omega^2 H^0 and negative definite on the orthogonal complement of omega H^1 (namely, X-Y). I think I might have gotten some of the signs wrong in my previous write up of this; I'll check later.
Nov 16, 2009 at 18:45 vote accept John McCarthy
Nov 16, 2009 at 18:45
Nov 16, 2009 at 18:40 comment added John McCarthy .... and for the complex Grassamnnian Gr(n,k)?
Nov 16, 2009 at 18:36 history answered David E Speyer CC BY-SA 2.5