Singular structure of Toda lattices and cohomology of certain compact Lie groups

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Abstract: We study the singularities (blow-ups) of the Toda lattice associated with a real split semisimple Lie algebra mathfrakg. It turns out that the total number of blow-up points along trajectories of the Toda lattice is given by the number of points of a Chevalley group K(mathbbFq) related to the maximal compact subgroup K of the group checkG with checkmathfrakg=mLie(checkG) over the finite field mathbbFq. Here checkmathfrakg is the Langlands dual of mathfrakg. The blow-ups of the Toda lattice are given by the zero set of the au-functions. For example, the blow-ups of the Toda lattice of A-type are determined by the zeros of the Schur polynomials associated with rectangular Young diagrams. Those Schur polynomials are the au-functions for the nilpotent Toda lattices. Then we conjecture that the number of blow-ups is also given by the number of real roots of those Schur polynomials for a specific variable. We also discuss the case of periodic Toda lattice in connection with the real cohomology of the flag manifold associated to an affine Kac-Moody algebra.












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