Singular components of the Springer fiber in the two-columns case

Abstract

We consider the Springer fiber ${\mathcal B}_u$ corresponding to a nilpotent endomorphism $u$ of nilpotent order 2. As a first result, we give a description of the elements of a given component of ${\mathcal B}_u$ which are fixed by the action of the standard torus relative to some Jordan basis of $u$. By using this result, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition of singularity for the components of ${\mathcal B}_u$.