%0 Journal Article %T Standard Monomial Theory for Bott-Samelson Varieties of GL(n) %A V. Lakshmibai %A Peter Magyar %J Mathematics %D 1997 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/S0764-4442(99)80401-7 %X We construct an explicit basis for the coordinate ring of the Bott-Samelson variety Z_i associated to G = GL(n) and an arbitrary sequence of simple reflections i. Our basis is parametrized by certain standard tableaux and generalizes the Standard Monomial basis for Schubert varieties. Our standard tableaux have a natural crystal graph structure. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9703020v1