Weighted PBW degenerations and tropical flag varieties

We study algebraic, combinatorial and geometric aspects of weighted Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt (PBW)-type degenerations of (partial) flag varieties in type [Formula: see text]. These degenerations are labeled by degree functions lying in an explicitly defined polyhedral cone, which can be identified with a maximal cone in the tropical flag variety. Varying the degree function in the cone, we recover, for example, the classical flag variety, its abelian PBW degeneration, some of its linear degenerations and a particular toric degeneration.

Some results on equivariant contact geometry for partial flag varieties

We study equivariant contact structures on complex projective varieties arising as partial flag varieties [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is a connected, simply-connected complex simple group of type ADE and [Formula: see text] is a parabolic subgroup. We prove a special case of the LeBrun-Salamon conjecture for partial flag varieties of these types. The result can be deduced from Boothby’s classification of compact simply-connected complex contact manifolds with transitive action by contact automorphisms, but our proof is completely independent and relies on properties of [Formula: see text]-equivariant vector bundles on [Formula: see text]. A byproduct of our argument is a canonical, global description of the unique [Formula: see text]-invariant contact structure on the isotropic Grassmannian of 2-planes in [Formula: see text].

Chevalley-Monk and Giambelli formulas for Peterson Varieties

International audience A Peterson variety is a subvariety of the flag variety $G/B$ defined by certain linear conditions. Peterson varieties appear in the construction of the quantum cohomology of partial flag varieties and in applications to the Toda flows. Each Peterson variety has a one-dimensional torus $S^1$ acting on it. We give a basis of Peterson Schubert classes for $H_{S^1}^*(Pet)$ and identify the ring generators. In type A Harada-Tymoczko gave a positive Monk formula, and Bayegan-Harada gave Giambelli's formula for multiplication in the cohomology ring. This paper gives a Chevalley-Monk rule and Giambelli's formula for all Lie types.