On some symplectic quotients of Schubert varieties

zbMATH Open1189.53078arXivmath/0606474MaRDI QIDQ846751FDOQ846751

Augustin-Liviu Mare

Publication date: 9 February 2010

Published in: Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G/P$ be a generalized flag variety, where $G$ is a complex semisimple connected Lie group and $PsubsetG$ a parabolic subgroup. Let also $XsubsetG/P$ be a Schubert variety. We consider the canonical embedding of $X$ into a projective space, which is obtained by identifying $G/P$ with a coadjoint orbit of the compact Lie group $K$, where $G=K^{mathbbC}$. The maximal torus $T$ of $K$ acts linearly on the projective space and it leaves $X$ invariant: let $Psi:XomLie(T{)}^{*}$ be the restriction of the moment map relative to the Fubini-Study symplectic form. By a theorem of Atiyah, $Psi(X)$ is a convex polytope in $mLie(T{)}^{*}$. In this paper we show that all pre-images $Ps{i}^{-1}(mu)$, $muinPsi(X)$, are connected subspaces of $X$. We then consider a one-dimensional subtorus $SsubsetT$, and the map $f:XomathbbR$, which is the restriction of the $S$ moment map to $X$. We study quotients of the form $f^{-1}(r)/S$, where $rinmathbbR$. We show that under certain assumptions concerning $X$, $S$, and $r$, these symplectic quotients are (new) examples of spaces for which the Kirwan surjectivity theorem and Tolman and Weitsman's presentation of the kernel of the Kirwan map hold true (combined with a theorem of Goresky, Kottwitz, and MacPherson, these results lead to an explicit description of the cohomology ring of the quotient). The singular Schubert variety in the Grassmannian $G_2({mathbbC}^4)$ of 2 planes in ${mathbbC}^4$ is discussed in detail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606474

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zbMATH Keywords

Schubert varietysemisimple Lie groupsymplectic quotient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Geometric invariant theory (14L24)

Cited In (7)

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• The Szegö kernel of a symplectic quotient
• On symplectic semifield spreads of \(\mathrm{PG}(5,q^2)\), \(q\) even
• Characterization of smooth Schubert varieties in rational homogeneous manifolds of Picard number 1
• On \(q\)-analogues of bounded symmetric domains and Dolbeault complexes
• On the Torus quotients of Schubert varieties
• The quotient of a complete symmetric variety

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