Brick manifolds and toric varieties of brick polytopes

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associahedra Bott-Samelson varieties brick polytopes toric varieties

Group actions on combinatorial structures (05E18) Algebraic combinatorics (05E99) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25)

Abstract: Bott-Samelson varieties are a twisted product of

m a t h b b C m a t h b b P^{1}

's with a map into

G / B

. These varieties are mostly studied in the case in which the map into

G / B

is birational to the image; however in this paper we study a fiber of this map when it is not birational. We will see that in some cases the general fiber, which we christen a brick manifold, is a toric variety. In order to do so we use the moment map of a Bott-Samelson variety to translate this problem into one in terms of the "subword complexes" of Knutson and Miller. Pilaud and Stump realized certain subword complexes as the dual of the boundary of a polytope which generalizes the brick polytope defined by Pilaud and Santos. For a nice family of words, the brick polytope is the generalized associahedron realized by Hohlweg and Lange. These stories connect in a nice way: the moment polytope of the brick manifold is the brick polytope. In particular, we give a nice description of the toric variety of the associahedron. We give each brick manifold a stratification dual to the subword complex. In addition, we relate brick manifolds to Brion's resolutions of Richardon varieties.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a complex Lie group and let \(B\) be a Borel subgroup of \(G\). A Bott-Samelson variety is the twisted product of a number of copies of \(\mathbb{C} \mathbb{P}^1\)'s equipped with a map into the flag variety \(G/B\). The author studies a fiber of this map in the case where the map is not birational to the image. Using the moment map of a Bott-Samelson variety, she states the problem in terms of Knutson and Miller's ``subword complexes and shows that in some cases, the general fiber, called a ``brick manifold, is a toric variety. A construction of certain brick polytopes of spherical subword complexes is presented in [\textit{V. Pilaud} and \textit{C. Stump}, Adv. Math. 276, 1--61 (2015; Zbl 1405.05196); \textit{V. Pilaud} and \textit{F. Santos}, European J. Combin. 33, No. 4, 632--662 (2012; Zbl 1239.52026)]. This construction is used in the paper under review for a precise description of the toric varieties of c-generalized associahedra in connection with Bott-Samelson varieties. The root independent subword complexes have interesting connections with Bott-Samelson varieties and symplectic geometry, which have been used by the author to describe the toric varieties of the associated brick polytopes. One of the main results of the paper is that the moment polytope of the brick manifold is the brick polytope. Also, the author gives a nice description of the toric variety of the associahedron.

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