Tangent cones to Schubert varieties in types A_n, B_n and C_n

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2016.07.015MaRDI QIDQ306542zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mikhail A. Bochkarev, Mikhail V. Ignatyev, Aleksandr A. Shevchenko

Publication date 31 August 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3166

zbMATH Keywords

flag varietyinvolution in the Weyl groupKostant-Kumar polynomialreduced tangent coneSchubert varietytangent cone

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical groups (algebro-geometric aspects) (14L35) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Root systems (17B22)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a complex reductive group, $T$ be a maximal torus of $G$, $B$ be a Borel subgroup of $G$ containing $T$, $W$ be the Weyl group of $G$ with respect to $T$. To each element $w$ of $W$ one can associate the Schubert subvariety $X_w$ of the flag variety $G/B$, the tangent cone to $X_w$ at the identity point $p$ considered as a subcheme of the tangent space $T_p(G/B)$, and the reduced tangent cone to $X_w$ at $p$ considered as a subvariety of $T_p(G/B)$. Let $w_1$, $w_2$ be distinct involutions in $W$. We prove that if $G$ is of type $B_n$ or $C_n$, then the tangent cones corresponding to $w_1$ and $w_2$ are distinct. We also prove that if $G$ is of type $A_n$ or $C_n$, then the reduced tangent cones corresponding to $w_1$ and $w_2$ are distinct.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a complex semisimple simply-connected algebraic group and let \(T\) be a maximal torus of \(G\), \(B\) a Borel subgroup of \(G\) containing \(T\) and \(W\) the Weyl group of \(G\). Let \(F = G/B\) be the full flag variety and let \(X_w\subset F\) be the Schubert variety, for any \(w\in W\). In the paper under review, the authors prove that if every irreducible component of \(G\) is of type \(B_n\) or \(C_n\), and \(w_1, w_2\) are two distinct involutions in \(W\), then the tangent cones at the base point \(eB\in X_{w_i}\) to the corresponding Schubert subvarieties \(X_{w_1} , X_{w_2}\) in \(F\) do not coincide as subschemes of the tangent space \(T_{eB}(F)\). Similarly, they also show that if every irreducible component of \(G\) is of type \(A_n\) or \(C_n\), then the reduced tangent cones to \(X_{w_1} , X_{w_2}\) do not coincide as subvarieties of \(T_{eB}(F)\). Their first result is proved by using (what they call) Kostant-Kumar polynomials (so was the following result by Eliseev and Ignatyev). Their second result is proved by using a connection between the tangent cones of \(X_w\) and the geometry of coadjoint orbits of \(B\). In a previous work [J. Math. Sci., New York 199, No. 3, 289--301 (2014); translation from Zap. Nauchn. Semin. POMI 414, 82--105 (2013; Zbl 1312.14116)], \textit{D. Yu. Eliseev} and \textit{M. V. Ignatyev} had proved that \(X_{w_1} , X_{w_2}\) (for distinct involutions \(w_1, w_2\)) do not coincide as subschemes of the tangent space \(T_{eB}(F)\) when the irreducible components of \(G\) are of type \(A_n\), \(F_4\) and \(G_2\) only (partially confirming an earlier conjecture by Panov in 2011 for any \(G\)).

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