Abstract
Let G be a connected semisimple Lie group. There are two natural duality constructions that assign to G: its Langlands dual group \(G^\vee \), and its Poisson–Lie dual group \(G^*\), respectively. The main result of this paper is the following relation between these two objects: the integral cone defined by the cluster structure and the Berenstein–Kazhdan potential on the double Bruhat cell \(G^{\vee ; w_0, e} \subset G^\vee \) is isomorphic to the integral Bohr–Sommerfeld cone defined by the Poisson structure on the partial tropicalization of \(K^* \subset G^*\) (the Poisson–Lie dual of the compact form \(K \subset G\)). By Berenstein and Kazhdan (in: Contemporary mathematics, vol. 433. American Mathematical Society, Providence, pp 13–88, 2007), the first cone parametrizes the canonical bases of irreducible G-modules. The corresponding points in the second cone belong to integral symplectic leaves of the partial tropicalization labeled by the highest weight of the representation. As a by-product of our construction, we show that symplectic volumes of generic symplectic leaves in the partial tropicalization of \(K^*\) are equal to symplectic volumes of the corresponding coadjoint orbits in \({{\,\mathrm{Lie}\,}}(K)^*\). To achieve these goals, we make use of (Langlands dual) double cluster varieties defined by Fock and Goncharov (Ann Sci Ec Norm Supér (4) 42(6):865–930, 2009). These are pairs of cluster varieties whose seed matrices are transpose to each other. There is a naturally defined isomorphism between their tropicalizations. The isomorphism between the cones described above is a particular instance of such an isomorphism associated to the double Bruhat cells \(G^{w_0, e} \subset G\) and \(G^{\vee ; w_0, e} \subset G^\vee \).
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For a n-dimensional real vector space V and \(D\subset V\), by a lattice in D or simply a lattice, we mean a subset of D of the form \(L\cap D\), where \(L\cong {\mathbb {Z}}^n\) is a lattice in V. We use this terminology throughout this paper.
The terminology flip of a triangulations is used in [5, 12, 13]. For a triangulation of n-gon, one may consider the dual graph of it, which is a tree. Then the flip of a triangulation induces a “move” of the corresponding tree. This move is called Whitehead move in [30]. In Teichmüller Theory, the terminology “Whitehead move” is usually presented by a similar move of trees, see e.g., [29]. The authors of [15] use the name Whitehead move for the flip of a diagonal of a triangulation.
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Acknowledgements
We are grateful to B. Elek, V. V. Fock, A. Goncharov, J. Lane, J. H. Lu and M. Semenov-Tian-Shansky for useful discussions, and to D. R. Youmans for his helpful comments on an earlier draft. We are indebted to an anonymous referee of this paper for careful remarks and suggestions. Research of A.A. and Y.L. was supported in part by the grant MODFLAT of the European Research Council (ERC), by the grants number 178794 and 178828 of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and by the NCCR SwissMAP of the SNSF. B.H. was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant Number DGE-1650441. A.B. and B.H. express their gratitude for hospitality and support during their visits to Switzerland in 2017 and 2018.
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Appendices
Appendices
Example: duality between \(B_2\) and \(C_2\)
Note \(\mathrm{SO}_{2n+1}^\vee =\mathrm{Sp}_{2n}\). Let us focus on the case \(n=2\). Here we use an alternative description of \(\mathrm{SO}_5\). Denote
The group \(\mathrm{SO}_5\) is isomorphic to
with Lie algebra:
Cartan subalgebra:
Borel subalgebra:
Cartan matrix and a symmetrizer:
Orthonormal basis in \({\mathfrak {h}}^*\):
Simple roots:
Positive roots:
Simple coroots:
Simple root vectors:
Fundamental weights:
Fundamental coweights:
Character lattice of the maximal torus:
Cocharacter lattice of the maximal torus:
Weyl group:
The longest element:
Now let us compute the BK potential and the BK cone. Note that the lift of \(s_i\) to G is given by:
And note \((\overline{s_1}\overline{s_2})^2=P_1P_2P_3P_4P_1P_2P_3P_1P_2P_1\). Let
and
Then for the longest word \((s_1s_2)^2\), generic elements of the double Bruhat cell \(G^{w_0,e}\) can be written:
This element is equal to
Thus the potential is
which gives us the cone cut out by the inequalities:
Now let us describe \(\mathrm{Sp}_4\) as the dual of \(\mathrm{SO}_5\). Denote
The group \(\mathrm{Sp}_4\) is isomorphic to
with Lie algebra:
Cartan subalgebra:
The Borel subalgebra:
Orthonormal basis in \(({\mathfrak {h}}^\vee )^*\):
Simple roots:
Positive roots:
Simple coroots of \({\mathfrak {g}}^\vee \) are given by:
Simple root vectors:
Fundamental weights:
Fundamental coweights:
Character lattice of the maximal torus:
Cocharacter lattice of the maximal torus:
To calculate the potential for \(G^\vee \), we need the lift of \(s_i\) to \(G^\vee \):
Note \((\overline{s_1}\overline{s_2})^2=P_1P_2P_3P_1P_2P_1\). Let
and
Then for the longest word \((s_1s_2)^2\), generic elements of the double Bruhat cell \(G^{\vee ;e,w_0}\) can be written:
This element is equal to
Thus the potential is
which gives us the cone cut out by the following inequalities:
Recall that \(\psi : X_*(H)\rightarrow X^*(H)\) is given by:
Then the map \(\psi _{{\mathbf {i}}}: {\mathcal {L}} \rightarrow {\mathcal {L}}^\vee \) is given by:
Thus it easy to see, after replacing \((y_1,y_2;t_1,t_2,t_3,t_4)\) by \((x_1+x_2,x_1+2x_2;t_1,2t_2,t_3,2t_4)\), that the real cone defined by (41) is the real cone defined by (40).
Bohr–Sommerfeld lattices and tropical Poisson varieties
In this section we extend the notion of a Bohr–Sommerfeld lattice to the category of tropical Poisson varieties, which we called \(\mathbf {PTrop}\) in [1]. We will actually consider the category \(\mathbf {DecPTrop}\) of decorated tropical Poisson varieties. An object of \(\mathbf {DecPTrop}\) is a tuple \(({\mathcal {C}}\times T, X^t, \pi , {{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}, P)\), where
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T is a connected subgroup of \((S^1)^n\);
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\(X^t = {{\,\mathrm{Hom}\,}}(S^1,(S^1)^n)\cong {{\,\mathrm{Hom}\,}}({\mathbb {C}}^\times ,({\mathbb {C}}^\times )^n)=(({\mathbb {C}}^\times )^n)^t\);
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\({\mathcal {C}}\subset X^t\otimes {\mathbb {R}}\) is an open rational polyhedral cone in \(X^t\otimes {\mathbb {R}}\);
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\(\pi \) is a constant Poisson bivector on \((X^t\otimes {\mathbb {R}})\times T\), and the projections to \(X^t \otimes {\mathbb {R}}\) and T (both equipped with the zero Poisson structure) are Poisson maps;
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\(P\cong {\mathbb {Z}}^{n-\dim (T)}\) is a free abelian group;
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\({{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}:X^t\rightarrow P\) is a \({\mathbb {Z}}\)-linear map, so that fibers of the induced map \({{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}_{{\mathbb {R}}}\circ {{\,\mathrm{pr}\,}}_1:{\mathcal {C}}\times T\rightarrow P\otimes {\mathbb {R}}\) are the symplectic leaves of \(({\mathcal {C}}\times T,\pi )\).
An example of a decorated tropical Poisson variety is
where tropicalization is taken with respect to the chart \(\varsigma ({\mathbf {i}})\) given by (30). Here the formula for \(\pi _{PT}^{\varsigma ({\mathbf {i}})}\) is given by Theorem 6.1, and we extend \(\pi _{PT}^{\varsigma ({\mathbf {i}})}\) to be a constant bracket on all of \(((G^{w_0,e}, \varsigma ({\mathbf {i}}))^t \otimes {\mathbb {R}}) \times (S^1)^m \cong {\mathbb {R}}^{m+r} \times (S^1)^m\).
An arrow in \(\mathbf {DecPTrop}\) is defined to be a pair
where \(f:X^t\rightarrow {X'}^t\) is a piecewise \({\mathbb {Z}}\)-linear map which is homogeneous in the sense that \(f(nx)=nf(x)\) for \(n\in {\mathbb {Z}}_{\geqslant 0}\), and \(g:P\rightarrow P'\) is a \({\mathbb {Z}}\)-linear map so that \({{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}'\circ f=g\circ {{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}\). We require that f induces a map of cones \(f:{\mathcal {C}}\rightarrow {\mathcal {C}}'\), and, on each open linearity chamber \(C\subset {\mathcal {C}}\) of f, the naturally induced map \(C\times (S^1)^n\rightarrow f(C)\times (S^1)^{n'}\) restricts to a Poisson map \(f:C\times T\rightarrow f(C)\times T'\).
There is an obvious forgetful functor from \(\mathbf {DecPTrop}\) to \(\mathbf {PTrop}\).
Definition B.1
For a point \(\lambda \in P\), consider the fiber \({{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}_{{\mathbb {R}}}^{-1}(\lambda ) \subset X^t\otimes {\mathbb {R}}\). For each \(x\in {{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}_{{\mathbb {R}}}^{-1}(\lambda )\cap X^t\), there is a lattice coming from \(\pi \) in the tangent space \(T_x ({{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}_{{\mathbb {R}}}^{-1}(\lambda ))\), as in (34). Using the canonical identification \(T_x ({{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}_{{\mathbb {R}}}^{-1}(\lambda )) \cong {{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}_{{\mathbb {R}}}^{-1}(\lambda )\), we can realize this lattice as a subset \(\Lambda _x\) of \({{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}_{{\mathbb {R}}}^{-1}(\lambda )\). A decorated tropical Poisson variety is quantizable if, for any \(\lambda \in P\) and any \(x,y\in {{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}_{{\mathbb {R}}}^{-1}(\lambda )\cap X^t\), one has \( \Lambda _x=\Lambda _y\). If \({\mathcal {C}}\times T\) is quantizable, define the Bohr–Sommerfeld lattice as
Our example \(PT(K^*)\) is quantizable, and this definition of \(\Lambda \) agrees with the one in (36), after forming the intersection with the cone \({\mathcal {C}}^G_{\varsigma ({\mathbf {i}})}({\mathbb {R}})\).
Because \(\pi \) is assumed to be constant, to check that \({\mathcal {C}}\times T\) is quantizable it is enough to check that
for any one \(z \in X^t\). Indeed, let \(\lambda \in P\) and let \(x,y\in {{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}_{{\mathbb {R}}}^{-1}(\lambda )\cap X^t\). Then, because \(\pi \) is constant, \(\Lambda _x = \Lambda _z + (x-z)\) and so \(X^t \cap {{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}^{-1}_{\mathbb {R}}(\lambda )\subset \Lambda _x\). Again because \(\pi \) is constant, \(\Lambda _y = \Lambda _x + (x-y)\). So since \(x-y\in X^t\), and since we have shown \(X^t \cap {{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}^{-1}_{\mathbb {R}}(\lambda )\subset \Lambda _x\), it follows that \(\Lambda _y= \Lambda _x\).
Lemma B.2
Let (f, g) be an isomorphism of decorated tropical Poisson varieties:
Assume \({\mathcal {C}}\times T\) is quantizable. Then \({\mathcal {C}}'\times T'\) is quantizable. If \(\Lambda '\) denotes the Bohr–Sommerfeld lattice of \({\mathcal {C}}'\times T'\), then \(f(\Lambda \cap \overline{{\mathcal {C}}})=\Lambda ' \cap \overline{{\mathcal {C}}'}\).
Proof
Without loss of generality assume that \(P=P'\) and \(g={{\,\mathrm{Id}\,}}\). First, we show that \({\mathcal {C}}'\times T'\) is quantizable. Let \(\lambda \in {{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}({\mathcal {C}}\cap X^t)\) and let \(x\in {{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}_{{\mathbb {R}}}^{-1}(\lambda ) \cap X^t\) be a point which is inside an open linearity chamber C of f. Note that C is a cone because f is assumed to be homogeneous. We may assume we have chosen \(\lambda \) and x such that the lattice generators of \(\Lambda _x\) are contained in C.
Let \(C_\lambda = C\cap {{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}_{{\mathbb {R}}}^{-1}(\lambda )\), and let \(L=C_\lambda \times T\). Then f induces a symplectomorphism of L onto its image, and we have \(f(\Lambda _x\cap C_\lambda )=\Lambda _{f(x)}'\cap f(C_\lambda )\). Since f is an isomorphism, one has \(f(X^t\cap C_\lambda )={X'}^t\cap f(C_\lambda )\). And since \({\mathcal {C}}\times T\) is quantizable, one has \(X^t \cap C_\lambda \subset \Lambda _x \cap C_\lambda \). Therefore \({X'}^t \cap f(C_\lambda )\subset \Lambda _{f(x)}'\cap f(C_\lambda )\). Since we chose x so that the lattice generators of \(\Lambda _x\) are contained in C, we can extend to all of \({{{\,\mathrm{hw}\,}}_{\mathbb {R}}'}^{-1}(\lambda )\). We then have
By the criterion (42), since \(\pi '\) is constant, this tells us that \({\mathcal {C}}'\times T\) is quantizable.
Now, let \(\Lambda '\) be the Bohr–Sommerfeld lattice of \({\mathcal {C}}'\times T'\). We will show that \(f(\Lambda )=\Lambda '\). It is enough to check, for each open linearity cone C of f, that \(f(\Lambda \cap C)=\Lambda '\cap f(C)\); one can then extend to the boundary of C and f(C) by linearity. For this it is enough to check that \(f(\Lambda _x\cap C)=\Lambda '_{f(x)}\cap f(C)\) for all \(x\in C\cap X^t\). But this follows because f induces a Poisson isomorphism from \(C\times T\) to its image. \(\square \)
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Alekseev, A., Berenstein, A., Hoffman, B. et al. Langlands duality and Poisson–Lie duality via cluster theory and tropicalization. Sel. Math. New Ser. 27, 69 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00029-021-00682-x
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