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Generalized flag variety

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For a connected reductive algebraic group G and a Borel subgroup B, the quotient G/B is its complete flag variety. Quotients G/P by parabolic subgroups are partial flag varieties.

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The generalized flag variety is a geometric object that arises in the context of algebraic geometry and representation theory. It can be thought of as a space that parameterizes chains of subspaces of a given vector space, analogous to how a projective space parameterizes lines through the origin in a vector space.
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