2026 CMS Winter Meeting

Montreal, Dec 11 - 14, 2026

Abstracts        

Algebraic combinatorics: longstanding questions in symmetric functions
Org: Houcine Ben Dali (Harvard University), Angele Foley (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Alejandro Morales (Université de Québec à Montréal)

MOHAMMAD BARDESTANI, John Abott College

HOUCINE BEN DALI, Harvard

FRANÇOIS BERGERON, UQAM

HONG CHEN, UCLA

PATTY COMMINS, UQAM

LUCAS GAGNON, USC

MEGUMI HARADA, McMaster University
Dimensions of type $A$ Hessenberg varieties over a fixed sheet  [PDF]

This talk is on joint work with Martha Precup and Colleen Robichaux.

Hessenberg varieties $\mathcal{H}\mathrm{ess}(\mathsf{X},\mathbf{h})$ are subvarieties of the flag variety parameterized by a Hessenberg function $\mathbf{h}: [n] \to [n]$ and a matrix $\mathsf{X} \in \mathfrak{gl}_n(\mathbb{C})$. Hessenberg varieties are known to be connected to the theory of quasisymmetric functions through the study of their cohomology rings. In recent work, Goldin and Precup showed the existence of flat degenerations of Hessenberg varieties to nilpotent Hessenberg varieties over the minimal sheet. This implies that all Hessenberg varieties over the minimal sheet have the same dimension. We generalize this dimension result to arbitrary sheets. Specifically, we prove that for a fixed Hessenberg function $\mathbf{h}:[n] \to [n]$, all Hessenberg varieties $\mathcal{H}\mathrm{ess}(\mathsf{X},\mathbf{h})$ defined in the type $A$ flag variety by linear operators $\mathsf{X}$ from the same sheet of the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{gl}_n(\mathbb{C})$ have the same dimension.

JOHN LENTFER, UCSD

JINTING LIANG, UBC

OLYA MANDELSHTAM, Waterloo

ROSA ORELLANA, Dartmouth

STEPHAN PFANNERER, Waterloo

SOPHIE REHBERG, UQAM

MARINO ROMERO, Mankato

KARTIK SINGH, Waterloo

VASU TEWARI, University of Toronto Mississauga

MICHELLE WACHS, Miami

DORA WOODRUFF, MIT


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