Toric degenerations of partial flag varieties and combinatorial mutations of matching field polytopes

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2023.09.026MaRDI QIDQ6066473zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Oliver Clarke, Fatemeh Mohammadi, Francesca Zaffalon

Publication date 16 November 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13975

flag varieties matching fields toric degeneration

Applications of commutative algebra (e.g., to statistics, control theory, optimization, etc.) (13P25) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15)

Abstract: We study toric degenerations arising from Gr"obner degenerations or the tropicalization of partial flag varieties. We produce a new family of toric degenerations of partial flag varieties whose combinatorics are governed by matching fields and combinatorial mutations of polytopes. We provide an explicit description of the polytopes associated with the resulting toric varieties in terms of matching field polytopes. These polytopes encode the combinatorial data of monomial degenerations of Pl"ucker forms for the Grassmannians. We give a description of matching field polytopes of flag varieties as Minkowski sums and show that all such polytopes are normal. The polytopes we obtain are examples of Newton-Okounkov bodies for particular full-rank valuations for flag varieties. Furthermore, we study a certain explicitly-defined large family of matching field polytopes and prove that all polytopes in this family are connected by combinatorial mutations. Finally, we apply our methods to explicitly compute toric degenerations of small Grassmannians and flag varieties and obtain new families of toric degenerations.

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For each subset \(K \subseteq [n] = \{1,\ldots,n\}\), the partial flag variety \(\mathcal{F}\ell(K;n)\) consists of the set of flags \(V_{k_1} \subsetneq V_{k_2} \subsetneq \cdots \subsetneq V_{k_d}\) where \(V_{k_i}\) is a \(k_i\)-dimensional vector subspace of \(\mathbb{C}^n\). For example, the Grassmannian \(\operatorname{Gr}(k,n)\) is a partial flag variety. In the paper, the authors study toric degenerations of partial flag varieties arising from matching fields. A matching field can be thought of as a modification of the Plücker embedding to a monomial map which sends each Plücker variable \(p_I\) to a single term of \(\det (X_I)\), where \(X_I\) is the submatrix of the \((n-1)\times n\) matrix of indeterminates index by \(I\). A main result of the paper states that: a matching field whose matching field polytope is combinatorial mutation equivalent to the Gelfand-Tsetlin polytope gives rise to a toric degeneration of the partial flag variety. They also perform computations to find all matching fields that give rise to toric degenerations of the Grassmannian \(\operatorname{Gr}(3,6)\) and \(\operatorname{Gr}(3,7)\) and give a conjecture for the general Grassmannians.

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