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Flatness of the linked Grassmannian
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by David Helm and Brian Osserman PDF
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 3383-3390 Request permission

Abstract:

We show that the linked Grassmannian scheme, which arises in a functorial compactification of spaces of limit linear series, and in local models of certain Shimura varieties, is Cohen-Macaulay, reduced, and flat. We give an application to spaces of limit linear series.
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Additional Information
  • David Helm
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, C1200, Austin, Texas 78712
  • Email: dhelm@math.utexas.edu
  • Brian Osserman
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616
  • MR Author ID: 722512
  • Email: osserman@math.ucdavis.edu
  • Received by editor(s): May 16, 2006
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: August 16, 2006
  • Published electronically: May 15, 2008
  • Additional Notes: The first author was supported by a fellowship from the NSF
    The second author was supported by fellowships from the Clay Mathematics Institute and the NSF during the preparation of this paper.
  • Communicated by: Ted Chinburg
  • © Copyright 2008 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 3383-3390
  • MSC (2000): Primary 14M15; Secondary 14H51, 14G35
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-08-08959-4
  • MathSciNet review: 2415019