The variety of exterior powers of linear maps

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2008.03.024MaRDI QIDQ2654050zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Winfried Bruns, Aldo Conca

Publication date 15 January 2010

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3399

zbMATH Keywords

general linear groupsingular locusorbit structureexterior poweralgebra of minors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Determinantal varieties (14M12) Classical groups (algebro-geometric aspects) (14L35)

Abstract: Let $K$ be a field and $V$ and $W$ be $K$-vector spaces of dimension $m$ and $n$. Let $phi$ be the canonical map from $Hom(V,W)$ to $Hom(wedg{e}^{t}V,wedg{e}^{t}W)$. We investigate the Zariski closure $X_t$ of the image $Y_t$ of $phi$. In the case $t=min(m,n)$, $Y_t=X_t$ is the cone over a Grassmannian, but $X_t$ is larger than $Y_t$ for $1<t<min(m,n)$. We analyze the $G=GL(V)imesGL(W)$-orbits in $X_t$ via the corresponding $G$-stable prime ideals. It turns out that they are classified by two numerical invariants, one of which is the rank and the other a related invariant that we call small rank. Surprisingly, the orbits in $X_{t}setminus{Y}_t$ arise from the images $Y_u$ for $u<t$ and simple algebraic operations. In the last section we determine the singular locus of $X_t$. Apart from well-understood exceptional cases, it is formed by the elements of rank $le1$ in $Y_t$.

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