Stratified spaces formed by totally positive varieties

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1030132717zbMATH Open1009.20056arXivmath/9912125OpenAlexW2087440435WikidataQ105614843 ScholiaQ105614843MaRDI QIDQ5954560FDOQ5954560

Authors: Sergey Fomin, Michael Shapiro 

Publication date: 4 February 2002

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By a theorem of A.Bj"orner, for every interval $[u,v]$ in the Bruhat order of a Coxeter group $W$, there exists a stratified space whose strata are labeled by the elements of $[u,v]$, adjacency is described by the Bruhat order, and each closed stratum (resp., the boundary of each stratum) has the homology of a ball (resp., of a sphere). Answering a question posed by Bj"orner, we suggest a natural geometric realization of these stratified spaces for a Weyl group $W$ of a semisimple Lie group $G$, and prove its validity in the case of the symmetric group. Our stratified spaces arise as links in the Bruhat decomposition of the totally nonnegative part of the unipotent radical of $G$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9912125

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zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupsWeyl groupsBorel subgroupsstratified spacesBruhat intervalssemisimple simply connected algebraic groupstotally positive varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

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