School of Mathematics Colloquium

Equivariant K-theory of flag varieties

by Prof. Shrawan Kumar (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

Asia/Kolkata
AG-69 (Colaba Campus)

AG-69

Colaba Campus

Description
We will discuss the T-equivariant K-theory of flag varieties G/B, where G is a semisimple complex algebraic group, B is a Borel subgroup and T is a maximal torus in B. The equivariant K-theory of G/B comes equipped with two natural bases: one coming from the structure sheaves of the Schubert varieties and the other its `dual' basis. We will prove some positivity phenomenon in the T-equivariant K-theory of G/B for the product structure constants in either of the above two bases. We will also discuss a generalization of these results to the flag varieties of Kac-Moody groups.