Singular loci of ladder determinantal varieties and Schubert varieties (Q1579150)

The authors give an interpretation of ``ladder determinantal varieties'' as ``opposite cells'' in a suitable Schubert variety. It is then possible to determine the singular loci of these varieties. This leads to a conjecture on the irreducible components of the singular locus of a Schubert variety in the flag variety. The essentially novel results of this article appear in sections 7 and 8 where an explicit description of the singular locus of a ladder determinantal variety of mixed type is provided. The last section deals with a reformulation of a previously published conjecture about the irreducible components of the singular locus of a Schubert variety in the classical manifold of full flags. The reference to this reviewer's article, as it appears in the introduction, states: ``An identification similar to that in theorem 1 for the case \(t_1=\cdots=t_l\) has also been obtained by Mulay''. This is somewhat misleading since the reviewer's article [\textit{S. B. Mulay}, Adv. Math. 74, No. 1, 1-30 (1989; Zbl 0693.14021)] contains an algorithm for identification (and more) can be deduced in a straightforward manner.