On special rational curves in Grassmannians (Q882540)

Sending a \(\mathbb{C}\)-module \(M\) to \(\mathbb{C}^d\otimes_{\mathbb{C}} M\) identifies Grassmannians of \(\mathbb{C}\)-sub\-mo\-du\-les of the \(\mathbb{C}\)-module \(\mathbb{C}^n\) isomorphic to \(\mathbb{C}^k\) with Grassmannians of \(\text{M}_d(\mathbb{C})\)-sub\-modules of the \(\text{M}_d(\mathbb{C})\)-module \(\mathbb{C}^{dn}=\mathbb{C}^d\otimes_{\mathbb{C}}\mathbb{C}^n\) isomorphic to \(\mathbb{C}^{dk}=\mathbb{C}^d\otimes_{\mathbb{C}}\mathbb{C}^k\), \[ \mathbb{G}(k, n)\overset{\simeq}\rightarrow \mathbf G _{\text{M}_d}(dk, dn). \] The faithful forgetting functor \(\text{M}_d(\mathbb{C})\)-\(\text{mod}\to \mathbb{C}\)-\(\text{mod}\) defines a canonical closed embedding \[ \mathbb{G}_{\text{M}_d}(dk, dn)\hookrightarrow \mathbb{G}(dk, dn). \] The composition \(\mathbb{G}(k, n)\rightarrow \mathbb{G}(dk, dn)\) of the above morphisms is called the Morita morphism. For \((k, n)=(1,2)\), the above composition is a smooth rational curve \(f_M:\mathbb{P}^1\rightarrow \mathbb{G}(d, 2d)\), called the Morita curve. The author obtains the numerical and geometric characterizations of rational curves \(f:\mathbb{P}^1\rightarrow \mathbb{G}(d, 2d)\) that are \(\text{GL}_{2d}(\mathbb{C})\)-equivalent to \(f_M\).