Nesting maps of Grassmannians

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Authors Corrado De Concini, Zinovy Reichstein

Publication date 28 September 2006

Published in Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Serie IX. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312039

zbMATH Keywords

Chern classcohomology ringGrassmanniantangent bundlevector bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15)

Abstract: Let F be a field and i < j be integers between 1 and n. A map of Grassmannians f : Gr(i, F^n) --> Gr(j, F^n) is called nesting, if l is contained in f(l) for every l in Gr(i, F^n). We show that there are no continuous nesting maps over C and no algebraic nesting maps over any algebraically closed field F, except for a few obvious ones. The continuous case is due to Stong and Grover-Homer-Stong; the algebraic case in characteristic zero can also be deduced from their results. In this paper we give new proofs that work in arbitrary characteristic. As a corollary, we give a description of the algebraic subbundles of the tangent bundle to the projective space P^n over F. Another application can be found in a recent paper math.AC/0306126 of George Bergman.

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Summary: Let \(F\) be a field and \(i < j\) be integers between \(1\) and \(n\). A map of Grassmannians \(f : Gr(i, F^n) \to Gr(j, F^n)\) is called nesting, if \(l\) is contained in \(f(l)\) for every \(l\) in \(Gr(i, F^n)\). We show that there are no continuous nesting maps over \(\mathbb{C}\) and no algebraic nesting maps over any algebraically closed field \(F\), except for a few obvious ones. The continuous case is due to Stong and Grover-Homer-Stong; the algebraic case in characteristic zero can also be deduced from their results. In this paper we give new proofs that work in arbitrary characteristic. As a corollary, we give a description of the algebraic subbundles of the tangent bundle to the projective space \(\mathbb{P}^n\) over \(F\). Another application can be found in a recent paper of \textit{G. M. Bergman} [Transform. Groups 11, No. 1, 7--15 (2006; Zbl 1109.15005)].

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