On motivic decompositions arising from the method of Bialynicki-Birula
Algebraic Geometry
2009-11-10 v3 K-Theory and Homology
Abstract
Recently, V. Chernousov, S. Gille and A. Merkurjev have obtained a decomposition of the motive of an isotropic smooth projective homogeneous variety analogous to the Bruhat decomposition. Using the method of Bialynicki-Birula, I generalize this decomposition to the case of a (possibly anisotropic) smooth projective variety homogeneous under the action of an isotropic reductive group. This answers a question of N. Karpenko.
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@article{arxiv.math/0407305,
title = {On motivic decompositions arising from the method of Bialynicki-Birula},
author = {Patrick Brosnan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0407305},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Vastly improved with (1) references to important previous work on the subject by S. del Bano, (2) an explicit combinatorial description of the decomposition of projective homogeneous varieties in terms of reflection groups and (3) an illustrative example