Download or read book Standard Monomial Theory written by V. Lakshmibai and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schubert varieties provide an inductive tool for studying flag varieties. This book is mainly a detailed account of a particularly interesting instance of their occurrence: namely, in relation to classical invariant theory. More precisely, it is about the connection between the first and second fundamental theorems of classical invariant theory on the one hand and standard monomial theory for Schubert varieties in certain special flag varieties on the other.