Schur rigidity of Schubert varieties in rational homogeneous manifolds of Picard number one

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17) Projective and enumerative algebraic geometry (14N99) Deformations of submanifolds and subspaces (32G10) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: Given a rational homogeneous manifold

S = G / P

of Picard number one and a Schubert variety

S_{0}

of

S

, the pair

(S, S_{0})

is said to be homologically rigid if any subvariety of

S

having the same homology class as

S_{0}

must be a translate of

S_{0}

by the automorphism group of

S

. The pair

(S, S_{0})

is said to be Schur rigid if any subvariety of

S

with homology class equal to a multiple of the homology class of

S_{0}

must be a sum of translates of

S_{0}

. Earlier we completely determined homologically rigid pairs

(S, S_{0})

in case

S_{0}

is homogeneous and answered the same question in smooth non-homogeneous cases. In this article we consider Schur rigidity, proving that

(S, S_{0})

exhibits Schur rigidity whenever

S_{0}

is a non-linear smooth Schubert variety.

Review text

Consider a pair \((S, S_0)\) where \(S=G/P\) is a rational homogeneous manifold of Picard number \(1\) and \(S_0\) a Schubert variety of \(S\). [\textit{J. Hong} and \textit{N. Mok}, J. Algebr. Geom. 22, No. 2, 333--362 (2013; Zbl 1274.14061)] completely determined homologically rigid pairs \((S, S_0)\) when \(S_0\) is smooth or homogeneous. Recall that the pair is said to be homologically rigid if any subvariety of \(S\) having the same homology class as \(S_0\) must be a translate of \(S_0\) by the automorphism group of \(S\). In the paper under review, the authors investigate a stronger form of rigidity called Schur rigidity and prove that the pair \((S, S_0)\) is Schur rigid when \(S_0\) is non-linear smooth. Here the pair \((S, S_0)\) is said to be Schur rigid if any subvariety of \(S\) with homology class equal to a multiple of the homology class of \(S_0\) must be a sum of translates of \(S_0\); \(S_0\) is said to be linear if it is a linear subspace of a ambient projective space \(\mathbb P^N\) of \(S\) where the embedding of \(S\) into \(\mathbb P^N\) is induced by the ample generator of the Picard group of \(S\).

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