Bridge graphs and Deodhar parametrizations for positroid varieties

Abstract

A parametrization of a positroid variety $\Pi$ of dimension $d$ is a regular map $({\mathbb{C}}^{\times }{)}^d\to \Pi$ which is birational onto a dense subset of $\Pi$. There are several remarkable combinatorial constructions which yield parametrizations of positroid varieties. We investigate the relationship between two families of such parametrizations, and prove they are essentially the same. Our first family is defined in terms of Postnikov's boundary measurement map, and the domain of each parametrization is the space of edge weights of a planar network. We focus on a special class of planar networks called bridge graphs, which have applications to particle physics. Our second family arises from Marsh and Rietsch's parametrizations of Deodhar components of the flag variety, which are indexed by certain subexpressions of reduced words. Projecting to the Grassmannian gives a family of parametrizations for each positroid variety. We show that each Deodhar parametrization for a positroid variety corresponds to a bridge graph, while each parametrization from a bridge graph agrees with some projected Deodhar parametrization.

31 pages; 12 figures

References in corpus (6)

• Total positivity, Grassmannians, and networks
• Schubert polynomials, the Bruhat order, and the geometry of flag manifolds
• Positroid varieties I: juggling and geometry
• A mirror symmetric construction of qH*_T(G/P)_(q)
• Parametrizations of flag varieties
• An algebraic cell decomposition of the nonnegative part of a flag variety

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Orientations of BCFW Charts on the Grassmannian