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Degenerate flag varieties of type A and C are Schubert varieties

Representation Theory 2014-07-17 v4

Abstract

We show that in type A or C any degenerate flag variety is in fact isomorphic to a Schubert variety in an appropriate partial flag manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1403.2889,
  title  = {Degenerate flag varieties of type A and C are Schubert varieties},
  author = {Giovanni Cerulli Irelli and Martina Lanini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.2889},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

The new version includes an appendix where we discuss desingularizations. 14 pages