NESTINGS OF RATIONAL HOMOGENEOUS VARIETIES

Abstract

In this paper we study the existence of sections of universal bundles on rational homogeneous varieties–called nestings–classifying them completely on rational homogeneous varieties G/P in the case where G is a simple group of classical type and P is a parabolic subgroup of G. In particular we show that, under this hypothesis, nestings do not exist unless there exists a proper algebraic subgroup of the automorphism group acting transitively on the base variety.