Flat GL(1|1)-connections and fatgraphs

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2023.104880MaRDI QIDQ6115697zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andrea Bourque, Anton M. Zeitlin

Publication date 10 August 2023

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08033

zbMATH Keywords

character varietyfatgraphflip transformationsFock-Rosly bracketPoisson moduli spacesuper Lie groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Baxter equations (16T25) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Discrete differential geometry (53A70) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Symplectic structures of moduli spaces (53D30)

Abstract: We study the moduli space of flat $GL(1|1)$-connections on a punctured surface from the point of view of graph connections. To each fatgraph, a system of coordinates is assigned, which involves two bosonic and two fermionic variables per edge, subject to certain relations. In the case of trivalent graphs, we provide a closed explicit formula for the Whitehead moves. In addition, we discuss the invariant Poisson bracket.

Review text

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.

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