Automorphism group of a Bott-Samelson-Demazure-Hansen variety

DOI10.1007/S00031-015-9327-8MaRDI QIDQ498938zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. Narasimha Chary, Subramaniam Senthamarai Kannan, A. J. Parameswaran

Publication date 29 September 2015

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01080

automorphism group Bott-Samelson-Demazure-Hansen variety simple algebraic group

Automorphisms of surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (14J50) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Classical groups (algebro-geometric aspects) (14L35) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17)

Abstract: Let

G

be a simple, adjoint, algebraic group over the field of complex numbers,

B

be a Borel subgroup of

G

containing a maximal torus

T

of

G

,

w

be an element of the Weyl group

W

and

X (w)

be the Schubert variety in

G / B

corresponding to

w

. Let

Z (w, u n d e r l i n e i)

be the Bott-Samelson-Demazure-Hansen variety (the desingularization of the Schubert variety

X (w)

) corresponding to a reduced expression

u n d e r l i n e i

of

w

. In this article, we compute the connected component

A u t^{0} (Z (w, u n d e r l i n e i))

of the automorphism group of

Z (w, u n d e r l i n e i)

containing the identity automorphism. We show that

A u t^{0} (Z (w, u n d e r l i n e i))

contains a closed subgroup isomorphic to

B

if and only if

w^{- 1} (a l p h a_{0}) < 0

, where

a l p h a_{0}

is the highest root. If

w_{0}

denotes the longest element of

W

, then we prove that

A u t^{0} (Z (w_{0}, u n d e r l i n e i))

is a parabolic subgroup of

G

. It is also shown that this parabolic subgroup depends very much on the chosen reduced expression

u n d e r l i n e i

of

w_{0}

and we describe all parabolic subgroups of

G

that occur as

A u t^{0} (Z (w_{0}, u n d e r l i n e i))

. If

G

is simply laced, then we show that for every

w i n W

and for every reduced expression

u n d e r l i n e i

of

w

,

A u t^{0} (Z (w, u n d e r l i n e i))

is a quotient of the parabolic subgroup

A u t^{0} (Z (w_{0}, u n d e r l i n e j))

of

G

for a suitable choice of a reduced expression

u n d e r l i n e j

of

w_{0}

. We also prove that the Bott-Samelson-Demazure-Hansen varieties are rigid for simply laced groups and their deformations are unobstructed in general.

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