A Schubert class  in the Grassmannian G(k, n) is rigid if the only proper subvarieties representing that class are Schubert varieties . We prove that a Schubert class  is rigid if and only if it is defined by a partition  satisfying a simple numerical criterion. If  fails this criterion, then there is a corresponding hyperplane class in another Grassmannian G(k0, n0) such that the deformations of the hyperplane in G(k0, n0) yield non-trivial deformations of the Schubert variety . We also prove that, if a partition  contains a sub-partition defining a rigid and singular Schubert class in another Grassmannian G(k0, n0), then there does not exist a smooth subvariety of G(k, n) representing .

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The entropy is one of the fundamental states of a fluid and, in the viscous case, the equation that it satisfies is highly singular in the region close to the vacuum. In spite of its importance in the gas dynamics, the mathematical analyses on the behavior of the entropy near the vacuum region, were rarely carried out; in particular, in the presence of vacuum, either at the far field or at some isolated interior points, it was unknown whether the entropy remains its boundedness. The results obtained in this paper indicate that the ideal gases retain their uniform boundedness of the entropy, locally or globally in time, if the vacuum occurs at the far field only and the density decays slowly enough at the far field. Precisely, we consider the Cauchy problem to the one-dimensional full compressible Navier-Stokes equations without heat conduction, and establish the local and global existence and uniqueness of entropy-bounded solutions, in the presence of vacuum at the far field only. It is also shown that, different from the case that with compactly supported initial density, the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, with slowly decaying initial density, can propagate the regularities in inhomogeneous Sobolev spaces.