Multiplicity-free products of Schubert divisors

TL;DR

This paper investigates the maximum degree of multiplicity-free products of Schubert divisors in the Chow ring of flag varieties over complex simple algebraic groups with simply laced Dynkin diagrams.

Contribution

It characterizes the maximal degree of multiplicity-free Schubert divisor products in the Chow ring of flag varieties.

Findings

Identifies the maximal degree of such products.

Provides conditions for multiplicity-freeness.

Advances understanding of Schubert calculus in flag varieties.

Abstract

Let $G/B$ be a flag variety over $\mathbb C$, where $G$ is a simple algebraic group with a simply laced Dynkin diagram, and $B$ is a Borel subgroup. We say that the product of classes of Schubert divisors in the Chow ring is multiplicity free if it is possible to multiply it by a Schubert class (not necessarily of a divisor) and get the class of a point. In the present paper we find the maximal possible degree (in the Chow ring) of a multiplicity free product of classes of Schubert divisors.