Geometry of B B-orbit closures in equivariant embeddings

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2007.06.001MaRDI QIDQ2456975zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xuhua He, Jesper Funch Thomsen

Publication date 29 October 2007

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510088

zbMATH Keywords

\(F\)-regularityequivariant embeddings of reductive groupsFrobenius morphismorbit closures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic (p) methods (Frobenius endomorphism) and reduction to characteristic (p); tight closure (13A35) Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17)

Abstract: Let $X$ denote an equivariant embedding of a connected reductive group $G$ over an algebraically closed field $k$. Let $B$ denote a Borel subgroup of $G$ and let $Z$ denote a $BimesB$-orbit closure in $X$. When the characteristic of $k$ is positive and $X$ is projective we prove that $Z$ is globally $F$-regular. As a consequence, $Z$ is normal and Cohen-Macaulay for arbitrary $X$ and arbitrary characteristics. Moreover, in characteristic zero it follows that $Z$ has rational singularities. This extends earlier results by the second author and M. Brion.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a connected reductive group over an algebraically closed field. An equivariant embedding is a normal \(G\times G\) variety which contains an open subset which is \(G\times G\)-equvarariantly isomorphic to \(G\) (where the \(G\times G\)-action is given by left and right translation). Let \(X\) be an equivariant embedding. In this article, the authors study the geometry of \(B\times B\) orbit closures in \(X\), where \(B\) is a Borel subgroup of \(G\). These varieties generalize toric varieties and Schubert varieties. It is shown that \(B\times B\)-orbit closures are normal and Cohen-Macauley. Also when the underlying field is of characteristic zero, then these orbit closures have rational singularities. These results generalise previous results of the second author with \textit{M. Brion} and \textit{J. F. Thomsen} [Am. J. Math. 128, 949--962 (2006; Zbl 1105.14064)], where the case of large Schubert varieties was treated. As in the previous article, the main tool is to use the concept of global \(F\)-regularity introduced by \textit{K. E. Smith} [Mich. Math. J. 48, 553--572 (2000; Zbl 0994.14012)] for varieties over a field of finite characteristic. Globally \(F\)-regular varieties are Cohen-Macauley and normal. In this paper, it is shown that every \(B\times B\)-orbit closure in a projective embedding \(X\) of a reductive group is globally \(F\)-regular.

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