Which Schubert varieties are local complete intersections?

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDT004MaRDI QIDQ2864126zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Henning Úlfarsson, Alexander Woo

Publication date 5 December 2013

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6146

zbMATH Keywords

local complete intersectionpattern avoidanceSchubert varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Combinatorial aspects of commutative algebra (05E40) Complete intersections (14M10) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

Abstract: We characterize by pattern avoidance the Schubert varieties for GL_n which are local complete intersections (lci). For those Schubert varieties which are local complete intersections, we give an explicit minimal set of equations cutting out their neighborhoods at the identity. Although the statement of our characterization only requires ordinary pattern avoidance, showing that the Schubert varieties not satisfying our conditions are not lci appears to require working with more general notions of pattern avoidance. The Schubert varieties defined by inclusions, originally introduced by Gasharov and Reiner, turn out to be an important subclass, and we further develop some of their combinatorics. Applications include formulas for Kostant polynomials and presentations of cohomology rings for lci Schubert varieties.

Review text

The main result of the paper is a characterization of those Schubert varieties for the general linear group that are local complete intersection (lci). The authors prove that a Schubert variety \(X_w\) associated to a permutation \(w \in S_m\) is lci if and only if \(w\) avoids the six patterns 53241, 52341, 52431, 35142, 42513, and 35162.NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents the basic definitions and set-up. Sections 3 and 4 prove that Schubert varieties associated to permutations avoiding the given patterns are lci. The proof involves showing that the variety \(X_w\) is lci at the identity point by identifying a minimal set generators for its defining ideal. This uses the notion of the \textit{essential set} of \(w\) introduced in [\textit{W. Fulton}, Duke Math. J. 65, No. 3, 381--420 (1992; Zbl 0788.14044)] and Schubert varieties \textit{defined by inclusions} from work of \textit{V. Gasharov} and \textit{V. Reiner} [J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 66, No. 3, 550--562 (2002; Zbl 1064.14056)].NEWLINENEWLINESection 5 proves the necessity of the pattern avoidance. The strategy is to identify a collection of intervals \([u,v]\) in the Bruhat order for which the corresponding slice is not lci. The authors then show that if \(w\) contains one of the six given patterns, then \(w\) \textit{interval contains} one of the intervals \([u,v]\) above and they conclude that \(X_w\) is not lci.NEWLINENEWLINESection 6 contains a number of applications, including formulas for Kostant polynomials and presentations of cohomology rings for lci Schubert varieties. Section 7 concludes with a number of open questions.

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