Stratified spaces formed by totally positive varieties

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1030132717MaRDI QIDQ5954560zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sergey Fomin, Michael Shapiro

Publication date 4 February 2002

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Borel subgroupsBruhat intervalsCoxeter groupssemisimple simply connected algebraic groupsstratified spacestotally positive varietiesWeyl groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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 $G$.

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