Degeneration of Schubert varieties of \(SL_n\slash B\) to toric varieties (Q5956578)

The authors show that certain Schubert varieties in \(SL(n) /B\) degenerate to toric varieties. The main idea used in this article is to relate such a Schubert variety to a distributive lattice and then to use standard monomial basis in the same spirit as Gonciulea-Laskshmibai's proof of degeneration of a Schubert variety in a minuscule \(G/P\) to a toric variety [see \textit{N. Gonciulea} and \textit{V. Lakshmibai}, Transform Groups 1, No. 3, 215-248 (1996; Zbl 0909.14028)].