This thesis deals with the study of Schubert varieties, which are subsets of flag varieties indexed by elements of Weyl groups. We start by defining Lascoux elements in the Hecke algebra, and showing that they coincide with the Kazhdan-Lusztig basis elements in certain cases. We then construct a resolution (Zw, π) of the Schubert variety Xw for which Rπ*(C[l(w)]) is a sheaf on Xw whose expression in the Hecke algebra is closely related to the Lascoux element. We also define two new polynomials which coincide with the intersection cohomology Poincar\'e polynomial in certain cases. In the final chapter, we discuss some interesting combinatorial results concerning Bell and Catalan numbers which arose throughout the course of this work.

Bekannte Theoreme von Carlson und Griffiths gestatten es, die Variation von Hodgestrukturen assoziiert zu einer Familie von glatten Hyperflächen sowie das Cupprodukt auf der mittleren Kohomologie explizit zu beschreiben. Wir benutzen M. Saitos Theorie der gemischten Hodgemoduln, um diesen Kalkül auf die Variation der Hodgestruktur der Schnittkohomologie von Familien nodaler Hyperflächen zu verallgemeinern. / Well known theorems of Carlson and Griffiths provide an explicit description of the variation of Hodge structures associated to a family of smooth hypersurfaces together with the cupproduct pairing on the middle cohomology. We give a generalization to families of nodal hypersurfaces using M. Saitos theory of mixed Hodge modules.

In 1976, Springer defined a correspondence making a link between the irreducible ordinary (characteristic zero) representations of a Weyl group and the geometry of the associated nilpotent variety. In this thesis, we define a modular Springer correspondence (in positive characteristic), and we show that the decomposition numbers of a Weyl group (for example the symmetric group) are particular cases of decomposition numbers for equivariant perverse sheaves on the nilpotent variety. We calculate explicitly the decomposition numbers associated to the regular and subregular classes, and to the minimal and trivial classes. We determine the correspondence explicitly in the case of the symmetric group, and show that James's row and column removal rule is a consequence of a smooth equivalence of nilpotent singularities obtained by Kraft and Procesi. The first chapter contains generalities about perverse sheaves with Z_l and F_l coefficients.