Toric degeneration of Schubert varieties and Gelfand¿Tsetlin polytopes

This note constructs the flat toric degeneration of the manifold Fln of flags in Cn due to Gonciulea and Lakshmibai (Transform. Groups 1(3) (1996) 215) as an explicit GIT quotient of the Grobner degeneration due to Knutson and Miller (Grobner geometry of Schubert polynomials, Ann. Math. (2) to appear). This implies that Schubert varieties degenerate to reduced unions of toric varieties, associated to faces indexed by rc-graphs (reduced pipe dreams) in the Gelfand–Tsetlin polytope. Our explicit description of the toric degeneration of Fln provides a simple explanation of how Gelfand–Tsetlin decompositions for irreducible polynomial representations of GLn arise via geometric quantization.

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