A noncommutative geometric LR rule

International audience The geometric Littlewood-Richardson (LR) rule is a combinatorial algorithm for computing LR coefficients derived from degenerating the Richardson variety into a union of Schubert varieties in the Grassmannian. Such rules were first given by Vakil and later generalized by Coskun. In this paper we give a noncommutative version of the geometric LR rule. As a consequence, we establish a geometric explanation for the positivity of noncommutative LR coefficients in certain cases.

Torus quotient of Richardson varieties in orthogonal and symplectic grassmannians

For any simple, simply connected algebraic group [Formula: see text] of type [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] and for any maximal parabolic subgroup [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text], we provide a criterion for a Richardson variety in [Formula: see text] to admit semistable points for the action of a maximal torus [Formula: see text] with respect to an ample line bundle on [Formula: see text].