The cotangent bundle of a cominuscule Grassmanian (Q516600)

A theorem of the first author states that the cotangent bundle of the type \(\mathbf{A}\) Grassmannian variety can be canonically embedded as an open subset of a smooth Schubert variety in a two-step affine partial flag variety (see [\textit{V. Lakshmibai}, Transform. Groups 21, No. 2, 519--530 (2016; Zbl 1390.14148)]). That theorem was inspired by works of Lusztig and Strickland. In particular, \textit{G. Lusztig} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 3, No. 2, 447--498 (1990; Zbl 0703.17008)] related certain orbit closures arising from the type \(\mathbf{A}\) cyclic quiver with \(h\) vertices to affine Schubert varieties. In the case \(h = 2\), Strickland [\textit{E. Strickland}, J. Algebra 75, 523--537 (1982; Zbl 0493.14030)] relates such orbit closures to conormal varieties of determinantal varieties; furthermore, any determinantal variety can be canonically realized as an open subset of a Schubert variety in the Grassmannian (see [\textit{V. Lakshmibai} and \textit{C. S. Seshadri}, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Sect. A 87, No. 2, 1--54 (1978; Zbl 0447.14011)]). In this paper, the authors extend the result of [\textit{V. Lakshmibai}, Transform. Groups 21, No. 2, 519--530 (2016; Zbl 1390.14148)] to cominuscule generalized Grassmannians of arbitrary finite type (such Grassmannians occur in types \(\mathbf{A}-\mathbf{E}\)).