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On the cohomology ring of the Grassmannian

The basis of Schubert classes for the cohomology ring $H^*(\text{Gr}(m,N))$ of the Grassmannian of $m$-dimensional subspaces of $\mathbb{C}^N$ is indexed by $L(m,N-m)$, the poset of all partitions ...
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A bridge between the algebraic / differential geometry of $\frak{sl}_2(\mathbb{C})$ and the Sheffer-Appell calculus and combinatorics

In "Four examples of Beilinson-Bernstein localization", Anna Romanov introduces the basis $m_k = \frac{(-1)^k}{k!} \partial^k \delta $ on p. 9, where $\partial$ is a partial derivative and $\...
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Conjecture by Ekedahl on Weyl groups and Abelian varieties

A conjecture was made on p.14 in "Cycle Classes of the E-O Stratification on the Moduli of Abelian Varieties" by Torsten Ekedahl (late, excellent contributor to MO) and Gerard Van Der Geer concerning ...
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Commuting matrix variety $[A,B]=0$ - can one geometrically explain divisibility of $F_ q$ point count by high powers of $q$?

$\DeclareMathOperator\Comm{Comm}\DeclareMathOperator\Id{Id}$Consider the variety $\Comm$ of commuting matrices $[A,B]=0$ over some field $K$. It is much studied, and interesting for various reasons. ...
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Polya-MacMahon-Burnside's generating function at "-1"

$\mathbb{Z}_n$, as a cyclic subgroup of symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_n$, acts on $[n] :=\{1, 2,\dots,n\}$. Hence $\Bbb{Z}_n$ permutes the elements of the Boolean algebra $2^{[n]}$ of all subsets of $[...
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Finding stable ideals of $\mathbb{F}_3[[X,S]]$ by group action

Let $k > 1$ be a positive integer and define the action $\sigma_k$ on $\mathbb{F}_3[[X,S]]$ by: $\sigma_k: X \mapsto X + S + X^k$ $\sigma_k: S \mapsto S + S^3$. Conjecture: There exists a ...
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What is the permutation group generated by those three given morphisms of the affine space $\mathbb{F}_q^3$?

Let $\mathbb{A}^3 = \mathbb{F}_q^3$. Consider the following three functions $\mathbb{A}^3\to\mathbb{A}^3$: \begin{eqnarray*} h: (x, y, z) &\mapsto& (x, y, xy - z) \\ u: (x, y, z) &\mapsto&...
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Automorphism groups of indefinite non-unimodular integer lattices

Does anyone know of any papers in which structural aspects of the orthogonal group of some indefinite non-unimodular integral lattice are calculated? The exact lattice isn't so important and they don'...
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elements in the weyl group

Let W be the Weyl a group of a semisimple simply connected group over C. Let I={1,...,r} the set of simple roots. For $w\in W$, I denote by supp(w) the subset of I corresponding to the simple ...
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Unicity of branched covering of sphere, and Hurwitz numbers

Hurwitz's encoding counts the number of branched self-coverings of a sphere, with prescribed ramification degrees at the critical points, as numbers of factorizations of the identity in a symmetric ...
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A commutative monoid associated with a finite abelian group

Let $M$ be a finite abelian group, and denote by $e_m$, for $m \in M$, the canonical basis of $\mathbb{Z}^M$. For $m, n \in M$ define elements $v_{m,n} \in \mathbb{Z}^M/\langle e_0\rangle$ as $$ v_{m,...