Intersection theory on spherical varieties

William Fulton, Robert MacPherson, Frank Sottile, and Bernd Sturmfels

We study complete varieties on which a connected solvable group acts with finitely many orbits, for example toric varieties or Schubert varieties. For these varieties, we exhibit a finite presentation of their Chow groups in terms of the orbit closures and compute the operational Chow cohomology ring. For smooth varieties of this type, their cohomology ring and rich combinatorial structure have been vital in many areas of mathematics. Our primary goal is to extend this as far as is possible to the singular case.



The manuscript in postscript.
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