“…To broaden parts of the discussion started above, one notes that the Peterson variety is an example of a Hessenberg variety. Introduced by the works [25,26], Hessenberg varieties are closed subvarieties of G/B with natural manifestations in topology [2,6,12,58,66,67], algebraic geometry [3,4,40,41], combinatorics [11,34,38,61], and representation theory [5,7,14,18,36]. It turns out that each Lagrangian leaf in the Toda lattice is naturally compactified by an appropriate Hessenberg variety (as we explain momentarily), generalizing the above-discussed relationship between the Peterson variety and a specific leaf.…”