Projections of Richardson varieties

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2012-0045zbMATH Open1345.14047arXiv1008.3939OpenAlexW2963192707MaRDI QIDQ2450167FDOQ2450167

Authors: Allen Knutson, Thomas Lam, David E Speyer 

Publication date: 16 May 2014

Published in: Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: While the projections of Schubert varieties in a full generalized flag manifold G/B to a partial flag manifold $G/P$ are again Schubert varieties, the projections of Richardson varieties (intersections of Schubert varieties with opposite Schubert varieties) are not always Richardson varieties. The stratification of G/P by projections of Richardson varieties arises in the theory of total positivity and also from Poisson and noncommutative geometry. In this paper we show that many of the geometric properties of Richardson varieties hold more generally for projected Richardson varieties; they are normal, Cohen-Macaulay, have rational singularities, and are compatibly Frobenius split with respect to the standard splitting. Indeed, we show that the projected Richardson varieties are the only compatibly split subvarieties, providing an example of the recent theorem [Schwede, Kumar-Mehta] that a Frobenius split scheme has only finitely many compatibly split subvarieties. (The G/B case was treated by [Hague], whose proof we simplify somewhat.) One combinatorial analogue of a Richardson variety is the order complex of the corresponding Bruhat interval in W; this complex is known to be an EL-shellable ball [Bjorner-Wachs '82]. We prove that the projection of such a complex into the order complex of the Bruhat order on W/W_P is again a shellable ball. This requires extensive analysis of "P-Bruhat order", a generalization of the k-Bruhat order of [Bergeron-Sottile '98]. In the case that G/P is minuscule (e.g. a Grassmannian), we show that its Grobner degeneration takes each projected Richardson variety to the Stanley-Reisner scheme of its corresponding ball.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3939

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Group actions on combinatorial structures (05E18) Classical groups (algebro-geometric aspects) (14L35)

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