Configurations of points and the symplectic Berry-Robbins problem (Q2339232)

The author presents a new problem on configurations of points, which is a new version of a similar problem by Atiyah and Sutcliffe. The present problem is related to the Lie group \(\mathrm{Sp}(n)\), instead of the Lie group \(U(n)\). Denote by \(\mathfrak{h}\) a Cartan algebra of \(\mathrm{Sp}(n)\), and \(\Delta\) the union of the zero sets of the roots of \(\mathrm{Sp}(n)\) tensored with \(\mathbb{R}^3\), each being a map from \(\mathfrak{h}\otimes \mathbb{R}^3\to \mathbb{R}^3\). The author obtains a map \((\mathfrak{h}\otimes\mathbb{R}^3)\to \mathrm{Sp}(n)/T^n\) which is equivariant under the action of the Weyl group \(W_n\) of \(\mathrm{Sp}(n)\). The existence of such a map was proved by Atiyah and Bielawski in a more general context. The author presents an explicit smooth candidate for such an equivariant map, which would be a genuine map provided a certain linear independence conjecture holds. The linear independence conjecture is proved for \(n = 2\). After presenting the main construction in Section 3, the author presents a determinant function. Next he deals with the case \(n=2\).