SAGBI bases and Degeneration of Spherical Varieties to Toric Varieties

dc.creatorKaveh, Kiumars
dc.date2003-09-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:01:26Z
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dc.descriptionLet X \subset Proj(V) be a projective spherical G-variety, where V is a finite dimensional G-module and G = SP(2n, C). In this paper, we show that X can be deformed, by a flat deformation, to the toric variety corresponding to a convex polytope Δ(X). The polytope Δ(X) is the polytope fibred over the moment polytope of X with the Gelfand-Cetlin polytopes as fibres. We prove this by showing that if X is a horospherical variety, e.g. flag varieties and Grassmanians, the homogeneous coordinate ring of X can be embedded in a Laurent polynomial algebra and has a SAGBI basis with respect to a natural term order. Moreover, we show that the semi-group of initial terms, after a linear change of variables, is the semi-group of integral points in the cone over the polytope Δ(X). The results of this paper are true for other classical groups, provided that a result of A. Okounkov on the representation theory of SP(2n,C) is shown to hold for other classical groups.
dc.description17 pages, LaTex, uses the package xy
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309413
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309413
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/68670
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.subjectCommutative Algebra
dc.subject14M17; 13P10
dc.titleSAGBI bases and Degeneration of Spherical Varieties to Toric Varieties
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