The totally nonnegative part of G/P is a CW complex

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The totally nonnegative part of \(G/P\) is a CW complex



Abstract: The totally nonnegative part of a partial flag variety G/P has been shown by the first author to be a union of semi-algebraic cells. Moreover she showed that the closure of a cell is the union of smaller cells. In this note we provide glueing maps for each of the cells to prove that the totally nonnegative part of G/P is a CW complex. This generalizes a result of Postnikov, Speyer and the second author for Grassmannians.


As a continuation of some earlier separate works of the authors, they show that the nonnegative part \((G/P)_{\geq 0}\) of any flag variety \(G/P\) is a CW complex. This extends the corresponding result by Postnikov-Speyer-Williams for the Grassmannians. Combined with an earlier result of Williams, as a corollary of the above result, the authors obtain that the Euler characteristic of the closure of any cell in \((G/P)_{\geq 0}\) is \(1\).











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