Rigid toric matrix Schubert varieties (Q6156189)

Matrix Schubert varieties were introduced by \textit{W. Fulton} [Duke Math. J. 65, No. 3, 381--420 (1992; Zbl 0788.14044)] to study the degeneracy loci of maps of flagged vector bundles. A matrix Schubert variety, associated with a permutation \(\pi\in S_N\) can be written as \(\overline{X_{\pi}}=Y_{\pi}\times {\mathbb C}^q\), where \(q\) is maximal possible. [Fulton, loc. cit] defined these varieties by certain rank conditions encoded in the Rothe diagram of the given permutation \(\pi\). \textit{L. Escobar} and \textit{K. Mészáros} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 144, No. 12, 5081--5096 (2016; Zbl 1357.14064)] characterized when the factor \(Y_{\pi}\) is toric, with respect to a \(({\mathbb C}^*)^{2n-1}\)-action, in terms of combinatorial properties of the permutation \(\pi\), and studied the moment polytope of its projectivization. The main result of the paper under review reformulates Escobar and K. Mészáros characterization in terms of the toric edge ideal associated to a bipartite graph defined via the given permutation \(\pi\). As a consequence, the author shows that the toric variety \(Y_{\pi}\) is rigid if and only if the three-dimensional faces of its moment (edge) cone are all simplicial.