Lagrangian Grassmannians and Spinor Varieties in Characteristic Two

The vector space of symmetric matrices of size n has a natural map to a projective space of dimension 2ⁿ −1 given by the principal minors. This map extends to the Lagrangian Grassmannian LG(n, 2n), and over the complex numbers, the image is defined, as a set, by quartic equations. In case the charac...

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Veröffentlicht in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Datum:2019
Hauptverfasser: van Geemen, B., Marrani, A.
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Lagrangian Grassmannians and Spinor Varieties in Characteristic Two / B. van Geemen, A. Marrani // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2019. — Т. 15. — Бібліогр.: 41 назв. — англ.
1815-0659
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 14M17; 20G15; 51E25
arXiv: 1903.01228
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/210231
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2019.064
The vector space of symmetric matrices of size n has a natural map to a projective space of dimension 2ⁿ −1 given by the principal minors. This map extends to the Lagrangian Grassmannian LG(n, 2n), and over the complex numbers, the image is defined, as a set, by quartic equations. In case the characteristic of the field is two, it was observed that, for n=3,4, the image is defined by quadrics. In this paper, we show that this is the case for any n and that, moreover, the image is the spinor variety associated to Spin(2n+1). Since some of the motivating examples are of interest in supergravity and in the black-hole/qubit correspondence, we conclude with a brief examination of other cases related to integral Freudenthal triple systems over integral cubic Jordan algebras.
BvG would like to thank L. Oeding and W. van der Kallen for helpful correspondence and discussions. We are indebted to the referees of this paper for comments and suggestions for improvements.
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Lagrangian Grassmannians and Spinor Varieties in Characteristic Two
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title Lagrangian Grassmannians and Spinor Varieties in Characteristic Two
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van Geemen, B.
Marrani, A.
title_short Lagrangian Grassmannians and Spinor Varieties in Characteristic Two
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Marrani, A.
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description The vector space of symmetric matrices of size n has a natural map to a projective space of dimension 2ⁿ −1 given by the principal minors. This map extends to the Lagrangian Grassmannian LG(n, 2n), and over the complex numbers, the image is defined, as a set, by quartic equations. In case the characteristic of the field is two, it was observed that, for n=3,4, the image is defined by quadrics. In this paper, we show that this is the case for any n and that, moreover, the image is the spinor variety associated to Spin(2n+1). Since some of the motivating examples are of interest in supergravity and in the black-hole/qubit correspondence, we conclude with a brief examination of other cases related to integral Freudenthal triple systems over integral cubic Jordan algebras.
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citation_txt Lagrangian Grassmannians and Spinor Varieties in Characteristic Two / B. van Geemen, A. Marrani // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2019. — Т. 15. — Бібліогр.: 41 назв. — англ.
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