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Closures of $ K$-orbits in the flag variety for $ SU^*(2n)$

Author(s): William M. McGovern
Journal: Represent. Theory 15 (2011), 568-573.
MSC (2010): Primary 22E47, 57S25
Posted: July 12, 2011
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Abstract: We characterize the $ Sp_{2n}$-orbits in the flag variety for $ SL_{2n}$ with rationally smooth closure via a pattern avoidance criterion, also showing that the singular and rationally singular loci of such orbit closures coincide.

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William M. McGovern
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-0001
Email: mcgovern@math.washington.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S1088-4165-2011-00386-1
PII: S 1088-4165(2011)00386-1
Keywords: Flag variety, pattern avoidance, rational smoothness
Received by editor(s): January 28, 2010
Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 13, 2010 and May 26, 2010
Posted: July 12, 2011
Copyright of article: Copyright 2011, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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