Pattern avoidance and rational smoothness of Schubert varieties
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Pattern avoidance and rational smoothness of Schubert varieties
zbMATH Open document ID: 0936.14036
published in: Advances in Mathematics
publication date: 1999-01-06T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(X\) be the full flag variety of a connected simple complex algebraic group \(G\) and let \(X_w\subset X\) be a Schubert variety (associated to a Weyl group element \(w\)). If \(G\) is of type \(A_n\), \textit{V. Lakshmibai} and \textit{G. Sandhya} [Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Math. Sci. 100, No. 1, 45-52 (1990; Zbl 0714.14033)] have shown that \(X_w\) is rationally smooth iff \(w\) avoids certain length-4 patterns. Further, \textit{V. Gasharov} has shown that (again in the \(A_n\)-case) \(X_w\) is rationally smooth iff the Poincaré polynomial \(p_w(t):= \sum_{v\leq w}t^{\ell(v)}\) (where \((\ell(v)\) is the length of \(v\)) factors into polynomials of the form \((1+t+ t^2+\cdots+ t^r)\). Now, Billey, in the paper under review, generalizes both of these results for classical groups \(G\) of type \(B\) and \(C\). As a corollary, she obtains that \(X_w\) (for \(G\) of type \(A\) and \(B\)) is rationally smooth iff the poset \([e,w]:= \{v\leq w\}\) has the Peck property (i.e., is rank symmetric, rank unimodal, and \(k\)-Sperner for all \(k\)). She also obtains a characterization for smooth \(X_w\) (for \(G\) of type \(B,C\) and \(D\)) in terms of pattern avoidance.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14M15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05E15
zbMATH DE Number: 1236157
zbMATH Keywords: full flag variety
zbMATH Keywords: Schubert variety
zbMATH Keywords: pattern avoidance
author: Sara Billey
reviewed by: Shrawan Kumar
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2078886608
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DOI: 10.1006/AIMA.1998.1744
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