Equivariant K-theory and tangent spaces to Schubert varieties

DOI10.1307/MMJ/20216042MaRDI QIDQ6187403zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William Graham, Victor Kreiman

Publication date 15 January 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02076

zbMATH Keywords

Borel subgroupBruhat orderroot systemWeyl group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of algebraic geometry (05E14) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15)

Abstract: Tangent spaces to Schubert varieties of type A were characterized by Lakshmibai and Seshadri. This result was extended to the other classical types by Lakshmibai. We give a uniform characterization of tangent spaces to Schubert varieties in cominuscule G/P. Our results extend beyond cominuscule G/P; they describe the tangent space to any Schubert variety in G/B at a point xB, where x is a cominuscule Weyl group element in the sense of Peterson. Our results also give partial information about the tangent space to any Schubert variety at any point. Our method is to describe the tangent spaces of Kazhdan-Lusztig varieties, and then recover results for Schubert varieties. Our proof uses a relationship between weights of the tangent space of a variety with torus action, and factors of the class of the variety in torus equivariant K-theory. The proof relies on a formula for Schubert classes in equivariant K-theory due to Graham and Willems, as well as a theorem on subword complexes due to Knutson and Miller.

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