Symplectic PBW degenerate flag varieties; PBW tableaux and defining equations (Q6097854)

The authors consider a simple simply connected group \(G\) over the complex numbers, together with a fixed Cartan decomposition of its Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\), and with a simple module \(V_\lambda\) associated to some dominant integral weight \(\lambda\). The degree filtration of the universal enveloping algebra of the negative nilpotent part of \(\mathfrak{g}\) induces the so-called \textit{PBW filtration} on \(V_\lambda\). This allows to define the \textit{PBW degenerate flag variety}. In this paper, the symplectic group of type \(C\) is considered, together with its complete flag variety \(\mathrm{Sp}\mathcal{F}_{2n}\), the associated PBW degenerate variety \(\mathrm{Sp}\mathcal{F}_{2n}^a\) and the respective Plücker embeddings. A set of \textit{PBW-semistandard tableaux} is defined, generalising an analogous definition in type \(A\) with an extra condition, the aim being to extend analogous work by Feigin on the group \(SL_n\). The first result of this paper is that the symplectic PBW-semistandard tableaux index a basis of the multihomogeneous coordinate ring of \(\mathrm{Sp}\mathcal{F}_{2n}^a\). Next, it is shown that these tableaux are in weight-preserving bijection with the set of monomials corresponding to integral points in the Feigin-Fourier-Littelmann-Vinberg polytope for highest weight modules of \(\mathfrak{g}\). The last result concerns the defining ideal of the variety \(\mathrm{Sp}\mathcal{F}_{2n}^a\): its relations are given by the degenerate Plücker relations of type \(A\), together with a set of degenerate linear relations obtained from De Concini's relations.