The Grassmannian Variety: Geometric and Representation-Theoretic Aspects

by V. Lakshmibai, Justin Brown

Overview

This book gives a comprehensive treatment of the Grassmannian varieties and their Schubert subvarieties, focusing on the geometric and representation-theoretic aspects of Grassmannian varieties. Research of Grassmannian varieties is centered at the crossroads of commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, representation theory, and combinatorics. Therefore, this text uniquely presents an exciting playing field for graduate students and researchers in mathematics, physics, and computer science, to expand their knowledge in the field of algebraic geometry. The standard monomial theory (SMT) for the Grassmannian varieties and their Schubert subvarieties are introduced and the text presents some important applications of SMT including the Cohen–Macaulay property, normality, unique factoriality, Gorenstein property, singular loci of Schubert varieties, toric degenerations of Schubert varieties, and the relationship between Schubert varieties and classical invariant theory.

This text would serve well as a reference book for a graduate work on Grassmannian varieties and would be an excellent supplementary text for several courses including those in geometry of spherical varieties, Schubert varieties, advanced topics in geometric and differential topology, representation theory of compact and reductive groups, Lie theory, toric varieties, geometric representation theory, and singularity theory. The reader should have some familiarity with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493930814
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	09/26/2015
Series:	Developments in Mathematics , #42
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface.- 1. Introduction.- Part I. Algebraic Geometry—A Brief Recollection - 2. Preliminary Material.- 3. Cohomology Theory.- 4. Gröbner Bases.- Part II. Grassmannian and Schubert Varieties.- 5. The Grassmannian and Its Schubert Varieties.- 6. Further Geometric Properties of Schubert Varieties.- 7. Flat Degenerations.- Part III. Flag Varieties and Related Varieties.- 8. The Flag Variety: Geometric and Representation-Theoretic Aspects.- 9. Relationship to Classical Invariant Theory.- 10. Determinantal Varieties.- 11. Related Topics.- References.- List of Symbols.- Index.

Editorial Reviews

The present book gives a detailed treatment of the standard monomial theory (SMT) for the Grassmannians and their Schubert subvarieties along with several applications of SMT. It can be used as a reference book by experts and graduate students who study varieties with a reductive group action such as flag and toric varieties.” (Valentina Kiritchenko, zbMATH 1343.14001, 2016)

“The book under review is more elementary; it is exclusively devoted to Grassmannians and their Schubert subvarieties. The book is divided into three parts. … This is a nicely written book, one that may appeal to students and researchers in related areas.” (Felipe Zaldivar, MAA Reviews, maa.org, December, 2015)

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