Langlands Duality and Poisson-Lie Duality via Cluster Theory and Tropicalization

Abstract

Let $G$ be a connected semisimple Lie group. There are two natural duality constructions that assign to it the Langlands dual group $G^{\vee }$ and the Poisson-Lie dual group $G^{\ast }$. 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 $K^{\ast }\subset G^{\ast }$ (the Poisson-Lie dual of the compact form $K\subset G$). By [5], 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 $K^{\ast }$ are equal to symplectic volumes of the corresponding coadjoint orbits in $\mathrm{Lie}(K{)}^{\ast }$. To achieve these goals, we make use of (Langlands dual) double cluster varieties defined by Fock and Goncharov [9]. 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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