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Local geometry of random geodesics on negatively curved surfaces
It is shown that the tessellation of a compact, negatively curved surface
induced by a typical long geodesic segment, when properly scaled, looks locally
like a Poisson line process. This implies that the global statistics of the
tessellation -- for instance, the fraction of triangles -- approach those of
the limiting Poisson line process.Comment: This version extends the results of the previous version to surfaces
with possibly variable negative curvatur
Standard Monomial Theory for Bott-Samelson Varieties of GL(n)
We construct an explicit basis for the coordinate ring of the Bott-Samelson
variety Z_i associated to G = GL(n) and an arbitrary sequence of simple
reflections i. Our basis is parametrized by certain standard tableaux and
generalizes the Standard Monomial basis for Schubert varieties. Our standard
tableaux have a natural crystal graph structure.Comment: Northeastern University, [email protected] AMSTeX amspp
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