The symplectic geometry of the Gel'fand-Cetlin-Molev basis for representations of Sp(2n, C)

DOI10.4310/JSG.2006.V4.N1.A1MaRDI QIDQ854477zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Megumi Harada

Publication date 4 December 2006

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404485

zbMATH Keywords

co-adjoint orbitsintegrable systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Geometric quantization (53D50) Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

Abstract: Gel'fand and Cetlin constructed in the 1950s a canonical basis for a finite-dimensional representation V(lambda) of U(n,C) by successive decompositions of the representation by a chain of subgroups. Guillemin and Sternberg constructed in the 1980s the Gel'fand-Cetlin integrable system on the coadjoint orbits of U(n,C), which is the symplectic geometric version, via geometric quantization, of the Gel'fand-Cetlin construction. (Much the same construction works for representations of SO(n,R).) A. Molev in 1999 found a Gel'fand-Cetlin-type basis for representations of the symplectic group, using essentially new ideas. An important new role is played by the Yangian Y(2), an infinite-dimensional Hopf algebra, and a subalgebra of Y(2) called the twisted Yangian Y^{-}(2). In this paper we use deformation theory to give the analogous symplectic-geometric results for the case of U(n,H), i.e. we construct a completely integrable system on the coadjoint orbits of U(n,H). We call this the Gel'fand-Cetlin-Molev integrable system.

Review text

By its very definition a co-adjoint orbit \({\mathcal O}_{\lambda}\) equipped with a maximal set of commuting functions is called a Gel'fand-Tsetlin system on \({\mathcal O}_{\lambda}\). The geometric quantization scheme produces from these data the representations spaces of the compact Lie groups SO\((n,{\mathbb R})\) and \(U(n,{\mathbb C})\) spanned by the so called Gel'fand-Tsetlin bases. This nice correspondence fails in the case of Sp\((2n,{\mathbb C})\) for which the respective basis was built some years ago [see \textit{A. I. Molev}, Commun. Math. Phys. 201, 591--618 (1999; Zbl 0931.17005)]. The interesting question addressed in the paper which is the Gel'fand-Tsetlin system on the co-adjoint orbit corresponding to this basis is answered by the author in the spirit of Guillemin-Sternberg theorem about the analogous situation with the unitary group \(U(n,{\mathbb C})\). Actually, the author presents in explicit form the maximal sets of commuting functions which are obtained via the deformation quantization techniques and making use of the well known representations of the Yangians and twisted Yangians which are examples of infinite-dimensional Hopf algebras. It is a little bit strange that while most of the presented results rely heavily on the Thimm's construction [\textit{A. Thimm}, Ergodic Theory Dyn. Syst. 1, 495--517 (1981; Zbl 0491.58014)] a reference to this paper is not given in the paper.

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