Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 78B.7 (2017), 12 pp.

Timothy Alland and Edward Richmond

Pattern Avoidance and Fiber Bundle Structures on Schubert Varieties

Abstract. We give a permutation pattern avoidance criteria for determining when the projection map from the flag variety to a Grassmannian induces a fiber bundle structure on a Schubert variety. In particular, we show that a Schubert variety has such a fiber bundle structure if and only if the corresponding permutation avoids the split patterns 3|12 and 23|1. We also show that a Schubert variety is an iterated fiber bundle of Grassmannian Schubert varieties if and only if the corresponding permutation avoids (non-split) patterns 3412, 52341, and 635241.


Received: November 14, 2016. Accepted: February 17, 2017. Final version: April 1, 2017.

The following versions are available: