Generic torus orbit closures in Schubert varieties

Abstract: The closure of a generic torus orbit in the flag variety

G / B

of type

A_{n - 1}

is known to be a permutohedral variety and well studied. In this paper we introduce the notion of a generic torus orbit in the Schubert variety

X_{w}

(w i n m a t h f r a k S_{n})

and study its closure

Y_{w}

. We identify the maximal cone in the fan of

Y_{w}

corresponding to a fixed point

u B

(u l e w)

, associate a graph

G a m m a_{w} (u)

to each

u l e w

, and show that

Y_{w}

is smooth at

u B

if and only if

G a m m a_{w} (u)

is a forest. We also introduce a polynomial

A_{w} (t)

for each

w

, which agrees with the Eulerian polynomial when

w

is the longest element of

m a t h f r a k S_{n}

, and show that the Poincar'e polynomial of

Y_{w}

agrees with

A_{w} (t^{2})

when

Y_{w}

is smooth.

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