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General isotropic flags are general (for Grassmannian Schubert calculus)

Author(s): Frank Sottile
Journal: J. Algebraic Geom.
Posted: July 9, 2009
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Abstract: We show that general isotropic flags for odd-orthogonal and symplectic groups are general for Schubert calculus on the classical Grassmannian in that Schubert varieties defined by such flags meet transversally. This strengthens a result of Belkale and Kumar.


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Additional Information:

Frank Sottile
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
Email: sottile@math.tamu.edu

PII: S 1056-3911(09)00518-9
Received by editor(s): January 16, 2008
Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 21, 2008
Posted: July 9, 2009
Additional Notes: Work of Sottile supported by NSF grant DMS-0701050

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