Total positivity in loop groups. I: Whirls and curls

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2012.03.012zbMATH Open1245.22013arXiv0812.0840OpenAlexW2963963365MaRDI QIDQ436235FDOQ436235

Authors: Thomas Lam, Pavlo Pylyavskyy 

Publication date: 20 July 2012

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This is the first of a series of papers where we develop a theory of total positivity for loop groups. In this paper, we completely describe the totally nonnegative part of the polynomial loop group GL_n(R[t,t^{-1}]), and for the formal loop group GL_n(R((t))) we describe the totally nonnegative points which are not totally positive. Furthermore, we make the connection with networks on the cylinder. Our approach involves the introduction of distinguished generators, called whirls and curls, and we describe the commutation relations amongst them. These matrices play the same role as the poles and zeroes of the Edrei-Thoma theorem classifying totally positive functions (corresponding to our case n=1). We give a solution to the ``factorization problem using limits of ratios of minors. This is in a similar spirit to the Berenstein-Fomin-Zelevinsky Chamber Ansatz where ratios of minors are used. A birational symmetric group action arising in the commutation relation of curls appeared previously in Noumi-Yamada's study of discrete Painlev'{e} dynamical systems and Berenstein-Kazhdan's study of geometric crystals.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0840

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zbMATH Keywords

generatorloop grouplimitrelationtotally positive matrixcylindric network

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67)

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