• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.433-446
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• 2016

We construct projective embeddings of horospherical varieties of Picard number one by means of Fano varieties of cones over rational homogeneous varieties. Then we use them to give embeddings of smooth horospherical varieties of Picard number one as linear sections of rational homogeneous varieties.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.1109-1122
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• 2015

A Schubert variety in a rational homogeneous variety G/P is defined by the closure of an orbit of a Borel subgroup B of G. In general, Schubert varieties are singular, and it is an old problem to determine which Schubert varieties are smooth. In this paper, we classify all smooth Schubert varieties in the symplectic Grassmannians.