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Double Bruhat cells in symmetric spaces

Huanchen Bao·Jinfeng Song
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This paper studies the closures of the double Bruhat cells of symmetric spacess in its equivariant embeddings. We call them large double Bruhat varieties. Our aim is to establish the double Bruhat stratification as a natural setting for extending the geometry of Richardson varieties to symmetric spaces. For the wonderful compactification of the associated adjoint symmetric space, we show their scheme-theoretic intersections with the unique closed orbit are reduced unions of projected Richardson varieties. This connection with Richardson geometry on partial flag varieties supports large double Bruhat varieties as a natural class of subvarieties in symmetric-space embeddings. In positive characteristic, we prove that every equivariant embedding admits a Frobenius splitting compatible with all large double Bruhat varieties and all boundary divisors. These varieties are strongly F-regular, and globally F-regular when the ambient embedding is projective. In characteristic zero, they are of strongly F-regular type, and of globally F-regular type in the projective case; in particular, they are normal, Cohen-Macaulay, and have rational singularities.

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Huanchen Bao, Jinfeng Song. 2026-10-12. Double Bruhat cells in symmetric spaces. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16362

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