Parametrizations of canonical bases and irreducible components of nilpotent varieties

Abstract

It is known that the set of irreducible components of nilpotent varieties provides a geometric realization of the crystal basis for quantum groups. For each reduced expression of a Weyl group element, Gei{\ss}, Leclerc and Schr\"{o}er has recently given a parametrization of irreducible components of nilpotent varieties in studying cluster algebras. In this paper we show that their parametrization coincides with Lusztig's parametrization of the canonical basis.