From brick manifolds to Grassmannians of bimodules

Abstract: We study a class of Grassmannians of sub-bimodules over the path algebras of quivers. Our quiver Grassmannians include Escobar's brick manifolds as well as Labelle's generalizations. We give an explicit construction of the varieties in question, provide examples and clarify connection with the quiver representation spaces. We also prove smoothness of our Grassmannians, construct cellular decompositions and derive a realization as framed moduli spaces. The framed moduli realization leads to a recursive formula for the motives.