Configurations of points and the symplectic Berry-Robbins problem

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2014.112MaRDI QIDQ2339232zbMATHFDO

Authors Joseph Malkoun

Publication date 31 March 2015

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.8291

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zbMATH Keywords

equivariant mapconfigurations of pointsAtiyah-Sutclife problemsymplectic Berry-Robbins problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Root systems (17B22)

Abstract: We present a new problem on configurations of points, which is a new version of a similar problem by Atiyah and Sutcliffe, except it is related to the Lie group $operatornameSp(n)$, instead of the Lie group $operatornameU(n)$. Denote by $mathfrakh$ a Cartan algebra of $operatornameSp(n)$, and $Delta$ the union of the zero sets of the roots of $operatornameSp(n)$ tensored with $mathbb{R}^3$, each being a map from $mathfrakhotimesmathbb{R}^{3}omathbb{R}^3$. We wish to construct a map $$ which is equivariant under the action of the Weyl group $W_n$ of $operatornameSp(n)$ (the symplectic Berry-Robbins problem). Here, the target space is the flag manifold of $operatornameSp(n)$, and $T^n$ is the diagonal $n$-torus. The existence of such a map was proved by Atiyah and Bielawski in a more general context. We present an explicit smooth candidate for such an equivariant map, which would be a genuine map provided a certain linear independence conjecture holds. We prove the linear independence conjecture for $n=2$.

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