2025 - T2 - WS1 - Higher rank geometric structures, Higgs bundles and physics

Collection 2025 - T2 - WS1 - Higher rank geometric structures, Higgs bundles and physics

Organizer(s) Canary, Richard ; Garcia-Faide, Elba ; Labourie, François ; Li, Qiongling ; Neitzke, Andrew ; Pozzetti, Beatrice ; Wienhard, Anna
Date(s) 19/05/2025 - 27/05/2025
linked URL https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/11569/
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Ghost polygons, Poisson bracket and convexity

By Martin Bridgeman

The moduli space of Anosov representations of a surface group in a semisimple group admits many more natural functions than the regular functions including length functions and correlation functions. We consider the Atiyah-Bott/Goldman Poisson bracket for length functions and correlation functions and give a formula that computes their Poisson bracket. This is done by introducing a new combinatorial framework including ghost polygons and a ghost bracket encoded in a formal algebra called the ghost algebra. As a consequence, we show that the set of length and correlation functions is stable under the Poisson bracket and give two applications: firstly in the presence of positivity we prove the convexity of length functions, generalising a result of Kerckhoff in Teichmüller space, secondly we exhibit subalgebras of commuting functions associated to laminations. This is joint with François Labourie.

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  • DOI 10.57987/IHP.2025.T2.WS1.001
  • Cite this video Bridgeman, Martin (19/05/2025). Ghost polygons, Poisson bracket and convexity. IHP. Audiovisual resource. DOI: 10.57987/IHP.2025.T2.WS1.001
  • URL https://dx.doi.org/10.57987/IHP.2025.T2.WS1.001

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