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Hook formulae from Segre-MacPherson classes

Nakada's colored hook formula is a vast generalization of many important formulae in combinatorics, such as the classical hook length formula and the Peterson's formula for the number of reduced expressions of minuscule Weyl group elements. In this paper, we utilize cohomological properties of Segre-MacPherson classes of Schubert cells and varieties to prove a generalization of a cohomological version of Nakada's formula, in terms of smoothness properties of Schubert varieties. A key ingredient in the proof is the study of a decorated version of the Bruhat graph. Summing over weighted paths of this graph give the terms in the generalized Nakada's formula, and also provide algorithms to calculate structure constants of multiplications of Segre-MacPherson classes of Schubert cells. For simply laced Weyl groups, we also show the equality of `skew' and `straight' Nakada's formulae. This utilizes a criterion for smoothness in terms of excited diagrams of heaps of minuscule elements, which might be of independent interest.