Toroidal Schubert varieties

DOI10.1007/S10468-019-09921-4MaRDI QIDQ2198614zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mahir Bilen Can, Reuven Hodges, V. Lakshmibai

Publication date 10 September 2020

Published in Algebras and Representation Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04879

zbMATH Keywords

Billey-Postnikov decomposition horospherical actions toroidal Schubert varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27)

Abstract: Levi subgroup actions on Schubert varieties are studied. In the case of partial flag varieties, the horospherical actions are determined. This leads to a characterization of the toroidal and horospherical partial flag varieties with Picard number 1. In the more general case, we provide a set of necessary conditions for the action of a Levi subgroup on a Schubert variety to be toroidal. The singular locus of a (co)minuscule Schubert variety is shown to contain all the

L_{m a x}

-stable Schubert subvarieties, where

L_{m a x}

is the standard Levi subgroup of the maximal parabolic which acts on the Schubert variety by left multiplication. In type A, the effect of the Billey-Postnikov decomposition on toroidal Schubert varieties is obtained.

Review text

For the Grassmann variety \(\text{Gr}(k,{\mathbb C}^n)\), by the main results of \textit{R. Hodges} and \textit{V. Lakshmibai} [Algebr. Represent. Theory 21, No. 6, 1219--1249 (2018; Zbl 07042767)] there is a complete classification of the Schubert varieties \(X(w)\subseteq\text{Gr}(k,{\mathbb C}^n)\) that are spherical with respect to the action of a Levi subgroup \(L_w\) of the stabilizer in \(\text{GL}_n({\mathbb C})\) of a point of \(X(w)\). For a complex connected reductive group \(G\) and a parabolic subgroup \(Q\subseteq G\), the overall question that is the focus of the article under review is which Schubert varieties \(X\) in the partial flag variety \(G/Q\), viewed as \(L\)-varieties under the action of a Levi subgroup \(L\subseteq G\), are spherical. Their first main result, Theorem 3.4, classifies partial flag varieties \(X=G/Q\) that are horospherical for a Levi subgroup \(L\) of another parabolic subgroup. For the proof, they first reduce to the case when \(L\) is simple and then apply some previous results of \textit{B. Pasquier} [Math. Ann. 344, No. 4, 963--987 (2009; Zbl 1173.14028)] on smooth projective horospherical varieties of Picard number \(1\). This allows them, in Theorem 4.1, to characterize the \(L\)-horospherical partial flag varieties \(X=G/Q\) of Picard number \(1\) that are \textit{toroidal}, that is, where every Borel-stable prime divisor of \(X\) that contains an \(L\)-orbit is \(L\)-stable. Their next general result, Proposition 5.3, gives a necessary and sufficient condition to determine when a Schubert variety contains an orbit of a given Levi subgroup. Their next results are more focused. First, they specialize to type A flag varieties where their main result, Corollary 6.6, gives necessary conditions for a Schubert variety in the Grassmannian to be toroidal. Next, they specialize to Schubert varieties in a partial flag variety \(G/Q\), for \(G\) simple and \(Q\subseteq G\) a (co)minuscule parabolic subgroup. They show that the singular locus of a (co)minuscule Schubert variety \(X(w)\) contains all \(L_{\text{max}}\)-stable Schubert subvarieties, for the standard Levi subgroup of the stabilizer subgroup of the Schubert variety \(X(w)\), and hence \(X(w)\) contains no \(L_{\text{max}}\)-stable Schubert divisors. Their last result, Theorem 8.4, gives the effect of the Billey-Postnikov on toroidal Schubert varieties in type A and provides necessary conditions, for a Schubert variety in a type A partial flag variety, to be toroidal.

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