Chern class of Schubert cells in the flag manifold and related algebras

Abstract: We discuss a relationship between Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes for Schubert cells in flag manifolds, Fomin-Kirillov algebra, and the generalized nil-Hecke algebra. We show that nonnegativity conjecture in Fomin-Kirillov algebra implies the nonnegativity of the Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes for Schubert cells in flag manifolds for type A. Motivated by this connection, we also prove that the (equivariant) Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes for Schubert cells in flag manifolds are certain summations of the structure constants of the equivariant cohomology of the Bott-Samelson varieties. We also discuss the refined positivity conjectures of the Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes for Schubert cells motivated by the nonnegativity conjecture in Fomin-Kirillov algebra.