Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly

Volume 12 (2016)

Number 2

Hessenberg varieties for the minimal nilpotent orbit

Pages: 183 – 223

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/PAMQ.2016.v12.n2.a1

Authors

Hiraku Abe (Advanced Mathematical Institute, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan; and Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Peter Crooks (Institute of Differential Geometry, Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Germany)

Abstract

For a connected, simply-connected complex simple algebraic group $G$, we examine a class of Hessenberg varieties associated with the minimal nilpotent orbit. In particular, we compute the Poincaré polynomials and irreducible components of these varieties in Lie type $A$. Furthermore, we show these Hessenberg varieties to be GKM with respect to the action of a maximal torus $T \subseteq G$. The corresponding GKM graphs are then explicitly determined. Finally, we present the ordinary and $T$-equivariant cohomology rings of our varieties as quotients of those of the flag variety.

Keywords

minimal nilpotent orbit, Hessenberg variety, equivariant cohomology

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

Primary 17B08. Secondary 55N91.

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Received 17 November 2016

Published 9 February 2018