Flag Varieties and the Yang-Baxter Equation

We investigate certain bases of Hecke algebras defined by means of theYang–Baxter equation, which we call Yang–Baxter bases. These bases areessentially self-adjoint with respect to a canonical bilinear form. In thecase of the degenerate Hecke algebra, we identify the coefficients in theexpansion of the Yang–Baxter basis on the usual basis of the algebra withspecializations of double Schubert polynomials. We also describe theexpansions associated to other specializations of the generic Heckealgebra.