The double Cayley Grassmannian

DOI10.4310/MRL.2021.V28.N6.A6MaRDI QIDQ2168342zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Laurent Manivel

Publication date 31 August 2022

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00313

zbMATH Keywords

double Cayley Grassmannianprojective symmetric varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15)

Abstract: We study the smooth projective symmetric variety of Picard number one that compactifies the exceptional complex Lie group G2, by describing it in terms of vector bundles on the spinor variety of Spin(14). We call it the double Cayley Grassmannian because quite remarkably, it exhibits very similar properties to those of the Cayley Grassmannian (the other symmetric variety of type G2), but doubled in the certain sense. We deduce among other things that all smooth projective symmetric varieties of Picard number one are infinitesimally rigid.

Review text

In complex algebraic geometry, projective symmetric varieties of Picard number one have been classified in [\textit{A. Ruzzi}, Transform. Groups 15, No. 1, 201--226 (2010; Zbl 1194.14071)]. In this classification, the Cayley Grassmannian \(CG\) and the double Cayley Grassmannian \(DG\) are of their own interest, partially because of their close relation with the exception Lie group \(G_2\). The author studies in this article the geometric properties of the double Cayley Grassmannian \(DG\), in parallel with the properties of Cayley Grassmannian \(CG\) studied in [\textit{L. Manivel}, J. Algebra 503, 277--298 (2018; Zbl 1423.14293)]. The author finds that the double Cayley Grassmannian \(DG\) exhibits the very same properties with the Cayley Grassmannian \(CG\), in a certain ``double form. Finally, it is proved that the double Cayley Grassmannian is infinitesimally rigid. This implies that all the smooth projective symmetric varieties of Picard number one are infinitesimally rigid.

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