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Thu, Oct 16, 2025
Combinatorial and Commutative Algebra Seminar
4:00 PM
MSCS 514
Staircase diagrams, pattern avoidance, and smooth Schubert varieties
Ed Richmond, OSU
20-minute AMS practice
[Abstract] [PDF]
Abstract: A well-known result due to Lakshmibai and Sandhya states that smooth Schubert varieties of type A correspond to permutations that avoid the patterns 3412 and 4231. It was later shown by Richmond and Slofstra that staircase diagrams over a simply-laced Dynkin diagram are in bijection with smooth Schubert varieties of the corresponding type. In this talk, I will discuss joint work with Azam where we explore how the poset structure of staircase diagrams is connected with pattern avoidance on subclasses of smooth permutations. As an application, we enumerate several subclasses of smooth permutations which are characterized by pattern avoidance. These subclasses include the class of polished permutations which were studied by Gaetz and Gao.
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