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A graphical calculus for 2-block Spaltenstein varieties

Representation Theory 2012-02-29 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We generalise statements known about Springer fibres associated to nilpotents with 2 Jordan blocks to Spaltenstein varieties. We study the geometry of generalised irreducible components (i.e. Bialynicki-Birula cells) and their pairwise intersections. In particular we develop a graphical calculus which encodes their structure as iterated fibre bundles with CP^1 as base spaces and compute their cohomology. At the end we present a connection with coloured cobordisms generalising a construction of Khovanov and Stroppel.

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@article{arxiv.1202.6247,
  title  = {A graphical calculus for 2-block Spaltenstein varieties},
  author = {Gisa Schäfer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.6247},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Final version to appear in Glasgow Math. Journal

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