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Schubert Calculus for Complete Quadrics

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We study complete the variety parametrizing the complete quadric r-folds in n-space and obtain its chow ring. Our motivation stems from Kleiman’s survey on Hilbert’s Problem 15 [4] and the introduction to the reprint of Schubert’s Kalkül…[5].

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  1. Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Cidade Universitária Recife-Pe., Brasil

    Israel Vainsencher

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  1. Département de Mathématiques, Université de Nice, Parc Valrose, F-06034, Nice, France

    Patrick Le Barz

  2. Déparement de Mathématiques, Université de Nice, Parc Valrose, F-06034, Nice, France

    Yves Hervier

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Vainsencher, I. (1982). Schubert Calculus for Complete Quadrics. In: Le Barz, P., Hervier, Y. (eds) Enumerative Geometry and Classical Algebraic Geometry. Progress in Mathematics, vol 24. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6726-0_10

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