The cohomology of abelian Hessenberg varieties and the Stanley–Stembridge conjecture

Harada, Megumi; Precup, Martha E.

Algebraic Combinatorics, Tome 2 (2019) no. 6, pp. 1059-1108.

We define a subclass of Hessenberg varieties called abelian Hessenberg varieties, inspired by the theory of abelian ideals in a Lie algebra developed by Kostant and Peterson. We give an inductive formula for the ${𝔖}_n$-representation on the cohomology of an abelian regular semisimple Hessenberg variety with respect to the action defined by Tymoczko. Our result implies that a graded version of the Stanley–Stembridge conjecture holds in the abelian case, and generalizes results obtained by Shareshian–Wachs and Teff. Our proof uses previous work of Stanley, Gasharov, Shareshian–Wachs, and Brosnan–Chow, as well as results of the second author on the geometry and combinatorics of Hessenberg varieties. As part of our arguments, we obtain inductive formulas for the Poincaré polynomials of regular abelian Hessenberg varieties.

Classification : 14M17, 05E05
Mots clés : Stanley–Stembridge conjecture, symmetric functions, e-positivity, Hessenberg varieties, abelian ideal

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