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Bott-Samelson atlases, total positivity, and Poisson structures on some homogeneous spaces

Representation Theory 2019-06-11 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a connected and simply connected complex semisimple Lie group. For a collection of homogeneous GG-spaces G/QG/Q, we construct a finite atlas ABS(G/Q){\mathcal{A}}_{\rm BS}(G/Q) on G/QG/Q, called the Bott-Samelson atlas, and we prove that all of its coordinate functions are positive with respect to the Lusztig positive structure on G/QG/Q. We also show that the standard Poisson structure πG/Q\pi_{G/Q} on G/QG/Q is presented, in each of the coordinate charts of ABS(G/Q){\mathcal{A}}_{\rm BS}(G/Q), as a symmetric Poisson CGL extension (or a certain localization thereof) in the sense of Goodearl-Yakimov, making (G/Q,πG/Q,ABS(G/Q))(G/Q, \pi_{G/Q}, {\mathcal{A}}_{\rm BS}(G/Q)) into a Poisson-Ore variety. Examples of G/QG/Q include GG itself, G/TG/T, G/BG/B, and G/NG/N, where TGT \subset G is a maximal torus, BGB \subset G a Borel subgroup, and NN the uniradical of BB.

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@article{arxiv.1906.03480,
  title  = {Bott-Samelson atlases, total positivity, and Poisson structures on some homogeneous spaces},
  author = {Jiang-Hua Lu and Shizhuo Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.03480},
  year   = {2019}
}
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