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20092023
most citedClosures of K-orbits in the flag variety for SU*(2n)

3 citations · 7 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

math.RT2023

Fake degrees of classical Weyl groups

William M. McGovern

We compute the fake degrees of representations of classical Weyl groups in terms of domino tableaux.

math.AG2022

Pattern avoidance and K-orbit closures

William M. McGovern

We review the various pattern avoidance criteria that have been developed for smoothness and rational smoothness of symmetric subvarieties of flag varieties in the classical cases,…

math.RT2021★ 1 cited

Isotypic components in type

William M. McGovern

We extend the result of our earlier paper "A family of operators generating domino tableaux..." to type , showing that the same recipe holds for computing basis vectors of isoty…

math.RT2021

Annihilators and associated varieties of Harish-Chandra modules for

William M. McGovern

Given a simple Harish-Chandra module for this group of trivial infinitesimal character, parametrized by a signed involution, we produce combinatorial recipes for attaching to it a…

math.RT2021

Orbital varieties in type

William M. McGovern

We correct the proof of the main result in an earlier paper, showing how to parametrize orbital varieties in a complex simple Lie algebra of type in terms of domino tableaux an…

math.RT2021

Orbital varieties in types and

William M. McGovern

We correct the proof of the main result of an earlier paper, parametrizing orbital varieties in a complex simple Lie algebra of type or in terms of domino tableaux and show…

math.RT2021

Annihilators and associated varieties of Harish-Chandra modules for Sp(p,q)

William M. McGovern

We show how to compute annihilators and associated varieties of simple Harish-Chandra modules for Sp(p,q) with trivial infinitesimal character from a pair of domino tableaux attach…

math.CO2020

Closures of O_n orbits in the flag variety for GL_n, II

William M. McGovern

We give a necessary and sufficient condition in terms of pattern avoidance for the conjugates of the bottom vertex in the Bruhat graph attached to an O_n orbit O in the flag variet…

math.RT2020

A family of operators generating domino tableaux of a fixed shape and a decomposition of left cells into isotypic components

William M. McGovern

We exhibit a set of operators on pairs of domino tableaux of the same shape sending them to other such pairs with the same right tableau, in such a way that any two pairs with the…

math.RT2014

The representation theory of generalized hyperoctahedral groups

William McGovern, James Pfeiffer

We give an explicit decomposition of , following Barbasch and Vogan [1]. We define two natural generalizations of , and extend the proof in [1] t…

math.RT2013

Upper semicontinuity of KLV polynomials for certain blocks of Harish-Chandra modules

William M. McGovern

We show that the coefficients of Kazhdan-Lusztig-Vogan polynomials attached to certain blocks of Harish-Chandra modules satisfy a monotonicity property relative to the closure orde…

math.RT2013

Rational singular loci of nilpotent varieties

William M. McGovern

We present two methods for computing the rational singular locus of the closure of a nilpotent orbit in a complex semisimple Lie algebra and give a number of interesting examples.

math.RT2011★ 1 cited

Closures of K-orbits in the flag variety for GL(2n)

William M. McGovern

We characterize the O_{2n} orbits in the flag variety for GL_{2n} with rationally smooth closure via a graph-theoretic criterion. We also give a necessary pattern avoidance criteri…

math.RT2009★ 3 cited

Closures of K-orbits in the flag variety for SU*(2n)

William M. McGovern

We characterize the Sp_{2n} orbits in the flag variety for SL_{2n} with rationally smooth closure via a pattern avoidance criterion, also showing that the singular and rationally s…

math.RT2009★ 2 cited

Closures of K-orbits in the flag variety for U(p,q)

William M. McGovern

We classify the GL_p x GL_q-orbits in the flag variety for GL_{p+q} with rationally smooth closure, showing that they are all either already closed or are pullbacks from orbits wit…

math.RT2009

Pattern avoidance and smoothness of closures for orbits of a symmetric subgroup in the flag variety

William M. McGovern, Peter E. Trapa

We give a pattern avoidance criterion to classify the orbits of Sp(p,C) x Sp(q,C) (resp. GL(n,C)) on the flag variety of type C_{p+q} (resp. D_n) with rationally smooth closure. We…