Double Bruhat cells and symplectic groupoids

Abstract

Let $G$ be a connected complex semisimple Lie group, equipped with a standard multiplicative Poisson structure ${\pi }_{\mathrm{st}}$ determined by a pair of opposite Borel subgroups $(B,B_{-})$. We prove that for each $v$ in the Weyl group $W$ of $G$, the double Bruhat cell $G^{v,v}=BvB\cap B_{-}v{B}_{-}$ in $G$, together with the Poisson structure ${\pi }_{\mathrm{st}}$, is naturally a Poisson groupoid over the Bruhat cell $BvB/B$ in the flag variety $G/B$. Correspondingly, every symplectic leaf of ${\pi }_{\mathrm{st}}$ in $G^{v,v}$ is a symplectic groupoid over $BvB/B$. For $u,v\in W$, we show that the double Bruhat cell $(G^{u,v},{\pi }_{\mathrm{st}})$ has a naturally defined left Poisson action by the Poisson groupoid $(G^{u,u},{\pi }_{\mathrm{st}})$ and a right Poisson action by the Poisson groupoid $(G^{v,v},{\pi }_{\mathrm{st}})$, and the two actions commute. Restricting to symplectic leaves of ${\pi }_{\mathrm{st}}$, one obtains commuting left and right Poisson actions on symplectic leaves in $G^{u,v}$ by symplectic leaves in $G^{u,u}$ and in $G^{v,v}$ as symplectic groupoids.

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