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THE CHERN–SCHWARTZ–MACPHERSON CLASS OF AN EMBEDDABLE SCHEME

Part of:Surfaces and higher-dimensional varietiesCycles and subschemes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2019

PAOLO ALUFFI
PAOLO ALUFFI*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL 32306, USA; aluffi@math.fsu.edu

Abstract

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The Chern–Schwartz–MacPherson class of a hypersurface in a nonsingular variety may be computed directly from the Segre class of the Jacobian subscheme of the hypersurface; this has been known for a number of years. We generalize this fact to arbitrary embeddable schemes: for every subscheme $X$ of a nonsingular variety $V$, we define an associated subscheme $\mathscr{Y}$ of a projective bundle $\mathscr{V}$ over $V$ and provide an explicit formula for the Chern–Schwartz–MacPherson class of $X$ in terms of the Segre class of $\mathscr{Y}$ in $\mathscr{V}$. If $X$ is a local complete intersection, a version of the result yields a direct expression for the Milnor class of $X$.

For $V=\mathbb{P}^{n}$, we also obtain expressions for the Chern–Schwartz–MacPherson class of $X$ in terms of the ‘Segre zeta function’ of $\mathscr{Y}$.

MSC classification

Primary:14C17: Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities
Secondary:14J17: Singularities

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Research Article
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Forum of Mathematics, Sigma , Volume 7 , 2019, e30
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