A criterion for the ideal of a projectively embedded toric surface to be generated by quadrics.
We describe the integral cohomology rings of the flag manifolds of types Bₙ, Dₙ, G₂ and F₄ in terms of their Schubert classes. The main tool is the divided difference operators of Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand and Demazure. As an application, we compute the Chow rings of the corresponding complex algebraic groups, recovering thereby the results of R. Marlin.
Let a reductive group act on an algebraic variety . We give a Hilbert-Mumford type criterion for the construction of open -invariant subsets admitting a good quotient by .