On Combinatorics of Quiver Component Formulas

Buch and Fulton [9] conjectured the nonnegativity of the quiver coefficients appearing in their formula for a quiver cycle. Knutson, Miller and Shimozono [24] proved this conjecture as an immediate consequence of their component formula. We present an alternative proof of the component formula by substituting combinatorics for Gröbner degeneration [23, 24]. We relate the component formula to the work of Buch, Kresch, Tamvakis and the author [10] where a splitting formula for Schubert polynomials in terms of quiver coefficients was obtained. We prove analogues of this latter result for the type BCD-Schubert polynomials of Billey and Haiman [4]. The form of these analogues indicate that it should be interesting to pursue a geometric context that explains them.