Schubert decompositions for ind-varieties of generalized flags (Q1688498)

The authors define Schubert cells and Schubert varieties for the classical ind-groups \(GL(\infty)\), \(O(\infty)\) and \(Sp(\infty)\). Flag varieties and Schubert varieties are very important geometric object attached to a given reductive algebraic group. For the ind-groups \(G=GL(\infty)\), \(O(\infty)\) and \(Sp(\infty)\) there are infinitely many conjugacy classes of splitting Borel subgroups \(B\), and hence there are infinitely many flag ind-varieties \(G/B\). In [\textit{I. Dimitrov} and \textit{I. Penkov}, Int. Math. Res. Not. 2004, No. 55, 2935--2953 (2004; Zbl 1069.22009)], these smooth ind-varieties has been described explicitly as the ind-variety of certain generalized flags in the natural representation \(V\) of \(G\). These varieties has been studied also in [\textit{I. Dimitrov} and \textit{I. Penkov}, Int. Math. Res. Not. 1999, No. 5, 223--249 (1999; Zbl 0917.17002)] and [\textit{I. Dimitrov} et al., Am. J. Math. 124, No. 5, 955--998 (2002; Zbl 1016.22012)]. The authors define Schubert decomposition of a more general ind-variety \(G/P\), where \(P\) is a splitting parabolic subgroup of \(G\). They define the Schubert cells as the \(B\)-orbits for any Borel ind-subgroup \(B\) which contains a common splitting maximal ind-torus with \(P\). The essential difference with the finite-dimensional case is that \(B\) is not necessarily conjugate to a Borel subgroup of \(P\). This leads to the existence of many non-conjugate Schubert decompositions of a given \(G/P\). The authors compute the dimensions of the cells of all Schubert decompositions of \(G/P\) for any splitting Borel subgroup \(B\) of \(G\). Moreover, a Bruhat decomposition of \(G/P\) induces a Bruhat decomposition of the ind-group \(G\) into double cosets. Finally the authors studies the smoothness of Schubert varieties, namely the closures of Schubert cells. In particular, they establish a criterion for smoothness which allows to conclude that certain known criteria for smoothness of finite-dimensional Schubert varieties pass to the limit at infinity. Schubert subvarieties of \(G/B\) are defined also in [\textit{H. Salmasian}, J. Algebra 320, No. 8, 3187--3198 (2008; Zbl 1172.14034)]. In such paper they are defined as arbitrary direct limits of Schubert varieties on finite-dimensional flag subvarieties of \(G/B\). With such definition Schubert varieties may be singular at all of its points. Instead with the definition of the present paper, which takes into account the natural action of \(G\) on \(G/B\), all Schubert varieties have a smooth big cell.