On frobenius splitting of orbit closures of spherical subgroups in flag varieties

Xuhua He, Jesper Funch Thomsen

Published 2010-06-27Version 1

Let $H$ be a connected spherical subgroup of a semisimple algebraic group $G$. In this paper, we give a criterion for $H$-orbit closures in the flag variety of $G$ to have nice geometric and cohomological properties. Our main tool is the method of Frobenius splitting and of global F-regularity.