Flat \(GL(1|1)\)-connections and fatgraphs (Q6115697)

This paper is about a discrete version of Poisson moduli spaces of flat connections on surfaces, with super-Lie structure groups. Recall that in the standard `non supersymmetric' context one considers moduli spaces of isomorphism/gauge classes of flat connections on the (topologically trivial) principal \(G\)-bundle over a (possibly punctured) Riemann surface \(\Sigma\), where \(G\) is a suitable Lie group, i.e., the character varieties \(\mathcal M(\Sigma,G) = \Hom(\pi,G) \big\slash G\), where \(\pi = \pi_1(\Sigma,b)\) for some base point \(b \in \Sigma\). This encompasses for example the Teichmüller space of a compact orientable smooth surface. With a triangulation of \(\Sigma\) one can associate a ribbon graph \(\tau\) (the `fatgraph' in the title), so that \(\tau\) is a deformation retract of \(\Sigma\). In turn, there is a notion of (gauge-class of) \(G\)-graph connection on \(\tau\), leading to a moduli space \(\mathcal M(\tau,G)\) of such. One shows that there is an isomorphism \(\mathcal M(\Sigma,G) \simeq \mathcal M(\tau,G)\). This is reviewed in Section 3 of the paper. The present paper considers the supermoduli space \(\mathcal M \bigl( \Sigma,\operatorname{GL}(1 \mid 1) \bigr)\), building on the standard global parametrisation of the Lie supergroup \(\operatorname{GL}(1 \mid 1)\) via Gauß factorisation of 2-by-2 matrices, which is reviewed in Section 2 (see Equation 2.5). In Section 4, this parametrisation is used to get global coordinates first on a decorated version of \(\mathcal M \bigl( \tau,\operatorname{GL}(1 \mid 1) \bigr)\) and then on the moduli space of supergraph connections itself after a suitable reduction (by edge reversals and vertex rescalings, see Theorem 3). Thus Theorem 4 provides a real-analytic isomorphism of \(\mathcal M \bigl(\tau,\operatorname{GL}(1 \mid 1) \bigr)\) with a real superspace of suitable even/odd dimensions, related to the genus of \(\Sigma\) and the number of punctures. This is then the super-analogue of Penner coordinates from the standard framework. Section 5 provides explicit formulæ for the flip transformations on the ribbon graphs at hand, generating the super-analogue of the Ptolemy groupoid from the standard story (which in turn is related to cluster algebras/transformations). Finally, Section 6 reviews (and adapts) the construction of the Fock-Rosly Poisson bracket on \(\mathcal M(\Sigma,G)\). This again relies on the ribbon graph \(\tau\) attached to \(\Sigma\), as well as on a Poisson-Lie structure on \(G\) which comes from a solution of the classical Yang-Baxter equation for the Lie algebra \(\operatorname{Lie}(G)\), i.e., a classical \(r\)-matrix.