The Self-Projecting Grassmannian

Abstract

We introduce the self-projecting Grassmannian, an irreducible subvariety of the Grassmannian parametrizing linear subspaces that satisfy a generalized self-duality condition. We study its relation to classical moduli spaces, such as the moduli spaces of pointed curves of genus $g$, as well as to other natural subvarieties of the Grassmannian. We further translate the self-projectivity condition in the combinatorial language of matroids, introducing self-projecting matroids, and we computationally investigate their realization spaces inside the self-projecting Grassmannian.