On the collapsing of homogeneous bundles in arbitrary characteristic

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Abstract: We study the geometry of equivariant, proper maps from homogeneous bundles GimesPV over flag varieties G/P to representations of G, called collapsing maps. Kempf showed that, provided the bundle is completely reducible, the image GcdotV of a collapsing map has rational singularities in characteristic zero. We extend this result to positive characteristic and show that for the analogous bundles the saturation GcdotV is strongly F-regular if its coordinate ring has a good filtration. We further show that in this case the images of collapsing maps of homogeneous bundles restricted to Schubert varieties are F-rational in positive characteristic, and have rational singularities in characteristic zero. We provide results on the singularities and defining equations of saturations GcdotX for P-stable closed subvarieties XsubsetV. We give criteria for the existence of good filtrations for the coordinate ring of GcdotX. Our results give a uniform, characteristic-free approach for the study of the geometry of a number of important varieties: multicones over Schubert varieties, determinantal varieties in the space of matrices, symmetric matrices, skew-symmetric matrices, and certain matrix Schubert varieties therein, representation varieties of radical square zero algebras (e.g. varieties of complexes), subspace varieties, higher rank varieties, etc.



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