Unitary Grassmannians

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Abstract: We study projective homogeneous varieties under an action of a projective unitary group (of outer type). We are especially interested in the case of (unitary) grassmannians of totally isotropic subspaces of a hermitian form over a field, the main result saying that these grassmannians are 2-incompressible if the hermitian form is generic. Applications to orthogonal grassmannians are provided.


The main result of the paper says that the unitary Grassmannians associated to a generic hermitian form are 2-incompressible and that the essential parts of their motives are indecomposable. The main application the computation of the \(J\)-invariant of the quadratic form attached to the generic hermitian form and therefore the minimal value of \(J\)-invariant of a quadratic form arising from a hermitian one (of a fixed dimension); here is used the original notion of \(J\)-invariant introduced by A. Vishik. Another application is the computation of the modulo 2 reduced Chow ring of a unitary Grassmannians in terms of the Chow ring of the orthogonal Grassmannians.



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