A Bruhat atlas for the Mehta-van der Kallen stratification of T^* GL_n/B

Abstract: Mehta and van der Kallen put a Frobenius splitting on the type A cotangent bundle

T^{*} G L_{n} / B

, thereby defining a stratification by compatibly split subvarieties, and they determined a few of the elements of this stratification. We embed

T^{*} G L_{n} / B

as a stratum in a larger stratified (and Frobenius split) space

G L_{n} / B i m e s M a t_{n}

whose stratification we determine, thereby giving a full description of the one of Mehta-van der Kallen. The main technique is to endow

G L_{n} / B i m e s M a t_{n}

with a Bruhat atlas, covering it with open sets that are stratified-isomorphic to Bruhat cells (in

G L_{2 n} / B_{2 n}

). Among the consequences are that each stratum closure is normal and Cohen-Macaulay.

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