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Action-angle coordinates on coadjoint orbits and multiplicity free spaces from partial tropicalization

Symplectic Geometry 2020-03-31 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

Coadjoint orbits and multiplicity free spaces of compact Lie groups are important examples of symplectic manifolds with Hamiltonian groups actions. Constructing action-angle variables on these spaces is a challenging task. A fundamental result in the field is the Guillemin-Sternberg construction of Gelfand-Zeitlin integrable systems for the groups K=U(n),SO(n)K=U(n), SO(n). Extending these results to groups of other types is one of the goals of this paper. Partial tropicalizations are Poisson spaces with constant Poisson bracket built using techniques of Poisson-Lie theory and the geometric crystals of Berenstein-Kazhdan. They provide a bridge between dual spaces of Lie algebras Lie(K){\rm Lie}(K)^* with linear Poisson brackets and polyhedral cones which parametrize the canonical bases of irreducible modules of G=KCG=K^\mathbb{C}. We generalize the construction of partial tropicalizations to allow for arbitrary cluster charts, and apply it to questions in symplectic geometry. For each regular coadjoint orbit of a compact group KK, we construct an exhaustion by symplectic embeddings of toric domains. As a by product we arrive at a conjectured formula for Gromov width of regular coadjoint orbits. We prove similar results for multiplicity free KK-spaces.

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@article{arxiv.2003.13621,
  title  = {Action-angle coordinates on coadjoint orbits and multiplicity free spaces from partial tropicalization},
  author = {Anton Alekseev and Benjamin Hoffman and Jeremy Lane and Yanpeng Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13621},
  year   = {2020}
}

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66 pages

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