A Kazhdan-Lusztig Atlas on G/P

Abstract

A stratified variety has a Kazhdan-Lusztig atlas if it can be locally modelled with Kazhdan-Lusztig varieties stratified by Schubert varieties in some Kac-Moody flag manifold via stratified isomorphisms. In this paper, we show that the partial flag manifold $G/P$ with the projected Richardson stratification has a Kazhdan-Lusztig atlas, with each chart stratified-isomorphic to a Kazhdan-Lusztig variety in the affine flag manifold of the formal loop group $\widehat{G}$ of $G$. This result generalizes that of Snider's on $Gr(k,n)$ with the positroid stratification, and is a geometric counterpart of the combinatorial correspondence between the poset of projected Richardson stratification and a certain convex set in the Bruhat order of the Weyl group of $\widehat{G}$ given by He and Lam.