Rationally smooth Schubert varieties and inversion hyperplane arrangements

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2015.07.034zbMATH Open1330.14087arXiv1312.7540OpenAlexW1790188797MaRDI QIDQ887317FDOQ887317

William Slofstra

Publication date: 28 October 2015

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

Abstract: We show that an element $w$ of a finite Weyl group $W$ is rationally smooth if and only if the hyperplane arrangement $I$ associated to the inversion set of $w$ is inductively free, and the product $(d_1+1)cdots(d_l+1)$ of the coexponents $d_1,ldots,d_l$ is equal to the size of the Bruhat interval $[e,w]$, where $e$ is the identity in $W$. As part of the proof, we describe exactly when a rationally smooth element in a finite Weyl group has a chain Billey-Postnikov decomposition. For finite Coxeter groups, we show that chain Billey-Postnikov decompositions are connected with certain modular coatoms of $I$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7540

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupsWeyl groupSchubert varietiesarrangements of hyperplanesinductive freeness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

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