Lagrangian configurations and symplectic cross-ratios

DOI10.1007/S00208-019-01866-9MaRDI QIDQ2332925zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Charles H. Conley, Valentin Ovsienko

Publication date 5 November 2019

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04271

zbMATH Keywords

continuantssymmetric linear difference operatorssymplectic vector spacetridiagonal determinants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic structures of moduli spaces (53D30)

Abstract: We consider moduli spaces of cyclic configurations of $N$ lines in a $2n$-dimensional symplectic vector space, such that every set of $n$ consecutive lines generates a Lagrangian subspace. We study geometric and combinatorial problems related to these moduli spaces, and prove that they are isomorphic to quotients of spaces of symmetric linear difference operators with monodromy $-1$. The symplectic cross-ratio is an invariant of two pairs of $1$-dimensional subspaces of a symplectic vector space. For $N=2n+2$, the moduli space of Lagrangian configurations is parametrized by $n+1$ symplectic cross-ratios. These cross-ratios satisfy a single remarkable relation, related to tridiagonal determinants and continuants, given by the Pfaffian of a Gram matrix.

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