Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of ladder determinantal varieties and patches of Grassmannian Schubert varieties (Q2109051)

The Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of a graded module is an important invariant that can be computed, for instance, from its minimal free resolution and can be viewed as a measure of its complexity. In this paper the authors focus on graded modules consisting of the quotient of the polynomial ring by the ideal of different classes of determinantal varieties, and they give explicit combinatorial formulas for the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity. Specifically, they consider one-sided mixed ladder determinantal ideals and certain Kazhdan-Lusztig ideals, including those coming from open patches of Schubert varieties in Grassmannians. They achieve their results using Schubert calculus techniques. Throughout this paper the algebras they consider are all Cohen-Macaulay. Their formula for regularity of patches of Grassmannian Schubert varieties provides a correction to a conjecture of Kummini, Lakshmibai, Sastry and Seshadri, that the current authors conjectured in an earlier paper.