Global Okounkov bodies for Bott–Samelson varieties

Abstract

We use the theory of Mori dream spaces to prove that the global Okounkov body of a Bott–Samelson variety with respect to a natural flag of subvarieties is rational polyhedral. As a corollary, Okounkov bodies of effective line bundles over Schubert varieties are shown to be rational polyhedral. In particular, it follows that the global Okounkov body of a flag variety G/B is rational polyhedral. As an application we show that the asymptotic behaviour of dimensions of weight spaces in section spaces of line bundles is given by the volume of polytopes.