Criteria for rational smoothness of some symmetric orbit closures.

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2011.09.002MaRDI QIDQ655340zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Axel Hultman

Publication date 4 January 2012

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0936

zbMATH Keywords

Schubert varietiesflag varietiesKazhdan-Lusztig polynomialsBruhat graphsconnected reductive linear algebraic groupsrational smoothnesssymmetric orbit closures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a connected reductive linear algebraic group over $C$ with an involution $heta$. Denote by $K$ the subgroup of fixed points. In certain cases, the $K$-orbits in the flag variety $G/B$ are indexed by the twisted identities $iot=heta(w^{-1})wmidwinW$ in the Weyl group $W$. Under this assumption, we establish a criterion for rational smoothness of orbit closures which generalises classical results of Carrell and Peterson for Schubert varieties. That is, whether an orbit closure is rationally smooth at a given point can be determined by examining the degrees in a ``Bruhat graph whose vertices form a subset of $iot$. Moreover, an orbit closure is rationally smooth everywhere if and only if its corresponding interval in the Bruhat order on $iot$ is rank symmetric. In the special case $K=S{p}_{2n}(C)$, $G=S{L}_{2n}(C)$, we strengthen our criterion by showing that only the degree of a single vertex, the ``bottom one, needs to be examined. This generalises a result of Deodhar for type $A$ Schubert varieties.

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