On singularity confinement for the pentagram map

DOI10.1007/S10801-012-0417-6MaRDI QIDQ372835zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Max Glick

Publication date 21 October 2013

Published in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0868

zbMATH Keywords

pentagram mapalternating sign matrixdecorated polygonsingularity confinement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35)

Abstract: The pentagram map, introduced by R. Schwartz, is a birational map on the configuration space of polygons in the projective plane. We study the singularities of the iterates of the pentagram map. We show that a "typical" singularity disappears after a finite number of iterations, a confinement phenomenon first discovered by Schwartz. We provide a method to bypass such a singular patch by directly constructing the first subsequent iterate that is well-defined on the singular locus under consideration. The key ingredient of this construction is the notion of a decorated (twisted) polygon, and the extension of the pentagram map to the corresponding decorated configuration space.

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