Positivity in T-equivariant K-theory of partial flag varieties associated to Kac-Moody groups

Abstract

We prove sign-alternation of the product structure constants in the basis dual to the basis consisting of the structure sheaves of Schubert varieties in the torus-equivariant Grothendieck group of coherent sheaves on the partial flag varieties $G/P$ associated to an arbitrary symmetrizable Kac-Moody group G, where P is any parabolic subgroup of finite type. This extends the previous work of Kumar from $G/B$ to $G/P$. When G is of finite type, i.e., it is a semisimple group, then it was proved by Anderson-Griffeth-Miller.