Real structures on horospherical varieties (Q2153818)

Let \(G\) be a complex reductive algebraic group. A subgroup of \(G\) is called horospherical if it contains a maximal torus of \(G\). A normal \(G\)-variety is called horospherical if it contains an open \(G\)-orbit isomorphic to \(G/H\) with \(H\) a horospherical subgroup of \(G\). Horospherical varieties include classical examples such as flag varieties and toric varieties, and are classified in combinatorial terms. The paper aims at studying equivariant real structures on horospherical variaties. In the first theorem, the authors give a criterion for a horospherical homogeneous space \(G/H\) to admit an equivariant real structure, and classify all possible equivariant real structures on \(G/H\). Then, given an equivariant open embedding \(G/H \hookrightarrow X\) of a horospherical homogeneous space into a (horospherical) \(G\)-variety \(X\), the authors characterize those equivariant real structures on the open orbit \(G/H\) which extend on \(X\) in terms of the combinatorial datum associated to the embedding. Finally, in their last theorem, the authors consider the equivariant real structures on smooth projective horospherical \(G\)-varieties of Picard rank 1: in this case they show that, if it exists, the equivariant real structure is unique; then they classify the cases where such a structure exists.