Action-angle coordinates on coadjoint orbits and multiplicity free spaces from partial tropicalization

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2022.108856arXiv2003.13621MaRDI QIDQ6337692FDOQ6337692

Anton Alekseev, Jeremy Lane, Yan-peng Li, Benjamin Hoffman

Publication date: 30 March 2020

Abstract: Coadjoint orbits and multiplicity free spaces of compact Lie groups are important examples of symplectic manifolds with Hamiltonian groups actions. Constructing action-angle variables on these spaces is a challenging task. A fundamental result in the field is the Guillemin-Sternberg construction of Gelfand-Zeitlin integrable systems for the groups $K=U(n),SO(n)$. Extending these results to groups of other types is one of the goals of this paper. Partial tropicalizations are Poisson spaces with constant Poisson bracket built using techniques of Poisson-Lie theory and the geometric crystals of Berenstein-Kazhdan. They provide a bridge between dual spaces of Lie algebras $mLie(K{)}^{*}$ with linear Poisson brackets and polyhedral cones which parametrize the canonical bases of irreducible modules of $G=K^{m}athbbC$. We generalize the construction of partial tropicalizations to allow for arbitrary cluster charts, and apply it to questions in symplectic geometry. For each regular coadjoint orbit of a compact group $K$, we construct an exhaustion by symplectic embeddings of toric domains. As a by product we arrive at a conjectured formula for Gromov width of regular coadjoint orbits. We prove similar results for multiplicity free $K$-spaces.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coadjoint orbits; nilpotent varieties (17B08) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Applications of tropical geometry (14T90) General theory of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian structures, symmetries, invariants (37J06) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with Lie algebras and other algebraic structures (37J37) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry, etc.) (37J39)

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