Chern classes of tautological sheaves on Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces

Abstract.

We give an algorithmic description of the action of the Chern classes of tautological bundles on the cohomology of Hilbert schemes of points on a smooth surface within the framework of Nakajima's oscillator algebra. This leads to an identification of the cohomology ring of Hilbⁿ(A²) with a ring of explicitly given differential operators on a Fock space. We end with the computation of the top Segre classes of tautological bundles associated to line bundles on Hilbⁿ up to n=7, extending computations of Severi, LeBarz, Tikhomirov and Troshina and give a conjecture for the generating series.