Cyclic Demazure modules and positroid varieties (Q2415092)

The classical Borel-Weil theorem identifies the global sections \(\Gamma (G/B, L_{\lambda})\) of a line bundle on a flag variety with the irreducible highest weight representation \(V(\lambda)\). When the same line bundle is restricted to a Schubert variety \(X_{\omega}\) the global sections \(\Gamma (X_{\omega}, L_{\lambda})\) can be identified with the Demazure module \(V_{\omega}(\lambda)\). In this paper, the author studies the global sections \(\Gamma (\Pi_f , \mathcal{O}(d))\) of a line bundle on a positroid subvariety \(\Pi_f\) of the Grassmannian \(Gr(k, n)\). Positroid varieties are certain intersections of cyclically rotated Schubert varieties in the Grassmannian. They were introduced in \textit{A. Postnikov}'s work on the totally nonnegative Grassmannian [``Total positivity, Grassmannians, and networks'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:math/0609764}], and subsequently studied in algebro-geometric terms by \textit{A. Knutson} et al. [Compos. Math. 149, No. 10, 1710--1752 (2013; Zbl 1330.14086)]. Each graded piece of the homogeneous coordinate ring of a positroid variety is the intersection of cyclically rotated (rectangular) Demazure modules, which the author calls the cyclic Demazure module. In this paper, he shows that the cyclic Demazure module has a canonical basis, and define the cyclic Demazure crystal.