arXiv · math/0003231
Connected components of real double Bruhat cells
Abstract
Double Bruhat cells in a semisimple group are intersections of cells in two Bruhat decompositions corresponding to two opposite Borel subgroups. They form a geometric framework for the study of total positivity in semisimple groups; they are also closely related to symplectic leaves in the corresponding Poisson-Lie groups. The term "cells" might be misleading because their topology can be quite non-trivial. As a first step towards understanding this topology, we enumerate the connected components of real double Bruhat cells. This result extends (from the simply-laced case to the general one) and proves the conjecture made in a joint work with B.Shapiro-M.Shapiro-A.Vainshtein; it also extends earlier work by B.Shapiro-M.Shapiro-A.Vainshtein and K.Rietsch.
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Andrei Zelevinsky. 2000-04-25. Connected components of real double Bruhat cells. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0003231
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