Matrix orbit closures

DOI10.1007/S13366-018-0402-XMaRDI QIDQ1671270zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Andrew Berget, Alex Fink

Publication date 6 September 2018

Published in Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1810

zbMATH Keywords

determinantal varietyequivariant \(K\)-classmatroid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Determinantal varieties (14M12) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Synthetic treatment of fundamental manifolds in projective geometries (Grassmannians, Veronesians and their generalizations) (51M35) Matroids in convex geometry (realizations in the context of convex polytopes, convexity in combinatorial structures, etc.) (52B40) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91)

Abstract: Let $G$ be the group $G{L}_r(C)imes(C^{i}mes{)}^n$. We conjecture that the finely-graded Hilbert series of a $G$ orbit closure in the space of $r$-by-$n$ matrices is wholly determined by the associated matroid. In support of this, we prove that the coefficients of this Hilbert series corresponding to certain hook-shaped Schur functions in the $G{L}_r(C)$ variables are determined by the matroid, and that the orbit closure has a set-theoretic system of ideal generators whose combinatorics are also so determined. We also discuss relations between these Hilbert series for related matrices, including their stabilizing behaviour as $r$ increases.

Review text

Consider the vector space \(V\) of \(r\times n\) matrices, acted upon by the group \(G=\mathrm{GL}_r(C) \times (C^{\times})^n\). Most points of \(V\) correspond to ordered \(n\)-tuples of points in the projective space \(P^{r-1}\). Such a tuple determines a matroid, a so-called representable matroid, via the dimensions of the spans of various subsets of the tuple. That matroid is invariant under the \(G\) action. The paper under review is one of the many works that explore the relation between the matroid and certain aspects of the geometry of the orbit. In particular, consider the class of the orbit closure in the \(G\)-equivariant \(K\)-theory of the vector space \(V\). The authors conjecture (Conjecture 5.1) that the matroid determines this class. Besides this conjecture the paper has two main results. In the first one the authors prove that certain coefficients of the \(K\)-class of the orbit closure are indeed determined by the matroid. In this result, the combinatorics of hook-shaped partitions/Schur functions play a role. The other main result is the description of the ideal of the orbit closure using only the matroid -- up to radical. If the ideal was reduced this would prove the conjecture, and it indeed does prove it in special cases when the ideal is reduced. For example, rank 2 or corank 2 uniform matroids satisfy this property.

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