Stokes matrices, Poisson Lie groups and Frobenius manifolds. (Q1608548)

The author proves that there is a holomorphic map \[ \nu : {\mathfrak g}^* \longrightarrow G^* \] from the dual of the Lie algebra of \(G=GL_n(\mathbb C)\) to the Poisson Lie group \(G^*\), dual to \(G\) is called the monodromy map. It is a Poisson map with respect to the canonical Poisson structures (scaled by a factor of \(2\pi i\)). In fact, there is a monodromy map for each choice of diagonal matrix \(A_0\) with distinct eigenvalues (the irregular type). The author gives two applications of the above construction: (i) First, if \(K=U(n)\) then, for each purely imaginary irregular type \(A_0\) the monodromy map restricts to a real Poisson diffeomorphism \({\mathfrak k}^* \cong K^*\) (scaled by a multiple of \(\pi\)); as a consequence one obtains a new proof of the classical result of Ginzburg and Weinstein. (ii) Secondly, if we restrict to skewsymmetric complex matrices then the corresponding space of Stokes data naturally appears as a moduli space of two-dimensional topological quantum field theories.