Quiver Grassmannians associated to nilpotent cyclic representations defined by single matrix

Abstract: In the present paper we study the geometry of the closed Bia{\l}ynicki-Birula cells of the quiver Grassmannians associated to a nilpotent representation of a cyclic quiver defined by a single matrix. For the special case, where we choose subrepresentations of dimension $\mathbf{1}=(1,\dots,1)$, the main result of this paper is that the closed Bia{\l}ynicki-Birula cells are smooth. We also discuss the multiplicative structure of the cohomology ring of such spaces. Namely, we describe the so-called Knutson-Tao basis in context to the basis of equivariant cohomology that is dual to fundamental classes in equivariant homology.