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Journal of Algebraic Geometry

Journal of Algebraic Geometry

Online ISSN 1534-7486; Print ISSN 1056-3911

   
 
 

 

Line bundles on Bott-Samelson varieties


Authors: Niels Lauritzen and Jesper Funch Thomsen
Journal: J. Algebraic Geom. 13 (2004), 461-473
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S1056-3911-03-00358-8
Published electronically: December 8, 2003
MathSciNet review: 2047677
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Abstract: We characterize the globally generated, ample and very ample line bundles on Bott-Samelson varieties. Using Frobenius splitting we prove a vanishing theorem generalizing the vanishing theorem of Kumar in characteristic zero (Invent. Math. 89 (1987), 395–423).


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Niels Lauritzen
Affiliation: Institut for Matematiske Fag, Aarhus Universitet, Ny Munkegade, DK-8000 Århus C, Denmark
Email: niels@imf.au.dk

Jesper Funch Thomsen
Affiliation: Institut for Matematiske Fag, Aarhus Universitet, Ny Munkegade, DK-8000 Århus C, Denmark.
Email: funch@imf.au.dk

Received by editor(s): January 22, 2002
Published electronically: December 8, 2003
Additional Notes: Both authors were supported in part by the TMR-programme “Algebraic Lie Representations” (ECM Network Contract No. ERB FMRX-CT 97/0100) and the Danish Natural Science Research Council