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A partial flag variety is a smooth projective homogeneous variety admitting an action of a maximal torus $T$. Schubert varieties are $T$-invariant subvarieties of the partial flag varieties. We study toric Schubert varieties in Grassmannian varieties with respect to the action of the torus $T$. Indeed, we present an explicit description of the fan of a Gorenstein toric Schubert variety in a Grassmannian, and we prove that any Gorenstein toric Schubert variety in a Grassmannian variety is Fano.

The double Cayley Grassmannian is a unique smooth equivariant completion with Picard number one of the 14-dimensional exceptional complex Lie group $G_2$, and it parametrizes eight-dimensional isotropic subalgebras of the complexified bi-octonions. We show the rigidity of the double Cayley Grassmannian under K\"{a}hler deformations. This means that for any smooth projective family of complex manifolds over a connected base of which one fiber is biholomorphic to the double Cayley Grassmannian, all other fibers are biholomorphic to the double Cayley Grassmannian., Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1905.06490

We describe varieties of minimal rational tangents on the wonderful symmetric varieties by marked Dynkin diagrams. An irreducible component of a variety of minimal rational tangents is a rational homogeneous space, and hence, we have a corresponding marked Dynkin diagram expression. On the other hand, we have marked Dynkin diagrams from the marked Kac diagram of a irreducible symmetric space by marking adjacent nodes to the marked node. We note that the above two diagrams coincide when the restricted root system is not of type A., Comment: 12 page, 8 tables

We describe the families of minimal rational curves on any complete symmetric variety, and the corresponding varieties of minimal rational tangents (VMRT). In particular, we prove that these varieties are homogeneous and that for non-exceptional irreducible wonderful varieties, there is a unique family of minimal rational curves, and hence a unique VMRT. We relate these results to the restricted root system of the associated symmetric space. In particular we answer by the negative a question of Hwang: for certain Fano wonderful symmetric varieties, the VMRT has two connected components., Comment: 54 pages, 1 table

Let $X$ be a smooth projective horospherical variety of Picard number one, of type $B_m$ for $m \geq 3$ or of type $F_4$. We show that any uniruled projective manifold with Picard number one is biholomorphic to $X$ if the variety of minimal rational tangents at a general point is projectively equivalent to that of $X$.

A horospherical variety is a normal $G$-variety such that a connected reductive algebraic group $G$ acts with an open orbit isomorphic to a torus bundle over a rational homogeneous manifold. The projective horospherical manifolds of Picard number one are classified by Pasquier, and it turned out that the automorphism groups of all nonhomogeneous ones are non-reductive, which implies that they admit no K\"{a}hler--Einstein metrics. As a numerical measure of the extent to which a Fano manifold is close to be K\"{a}hler--Einstein, we compute the greatest Ricci lower bounds of projective horospherical manifolds of Picard number one using the barycenter of each moment polytope with respect to the Duistermaat--Heckman measure based on a recent work of Delcroix and Hultgren. In particular, the greatest Ricci lower bound of the odd symplectic Grassmannian $\text{SGr}(n,2n+1)$ can be arbitrarily close to zero as $n$ grows., Comment: 22 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables

Symmetric varieties are normal equivariant open embeddings of symmetric homogeneous spaces and they are interesting examples of spherical varieties. The principal goal of this article is to study the rigidity under K\"{a}hler deformations of smooth projective symmetric varieties with Picard number one., Comment: 9 pages

We classify the Lie algebras of infinitesimal CR automorphisms of weakly pseudoconvex hypersurfaces of finite multitype in $\mathbb C^N$. In particular, we prove that such manifolds admit neither nonlinear rigid automorphisms, nor real or nilpotent rotations. As a consequence, this leads to a proof of a sharp 2-jet determination result for local automorphisms. Moreover, for hypersurfaces which are not balanced, CR automorphisms are uniquely determined by their 1-jets. The same classification is derived also for special models, given by sums of squares of polynomials. In particular, in the case of homogeneous polynomials the Lie algebra of infinitesimal CR automorphisms is always three graded. The results provide an important necessary step for solving the local equivalence problem on weakly pseudoconvex manifolds., Comment: 14 pages

Smooth Schubert varieties in rational homogeneous manifolds of Picard number 1 are horospherical varieties. We characterize standard embeddings of smooth Schubert varieties in rational homogeneous manifolds of Picard number 1 by means of varieties of minimal rational tangents. In particular, we mainly consider nonhomogeneous smooth Schubert varieties in symplectic Grassmannians and in the 20-dimensional $F_4$-homogeneous manifold associated to a short simple root., Comment: 22 pages

Geometric structures modeled on rational homogeneous manifolds are studied to characterize rational homogeneous manifolds and to prove their deformation rigidity. To generalize these characterizations and deformation rigidity results to quasihomogeneous varieties, we first study horospherical varieties and geometric structures modeled on horospherical varieties. Using Cartan geometry, we prove that a geometric structure modeled on a smooth projective horospherical variety of Picard number one is locally equivalent to the standard geometric structure when the geometric structure is defined on a Fano manifold of Picard number one., Comment: 32 pages