19–27 mai 2025
Institut Henri Poincaré
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Ghost polygons, Poisson bracket and convexity

19 mai 2025, 11:30
1h
Amphithéâtre Hermite (Institut Henri Poincaré)

Amphithéâtre Hermite

Institut Henri Poincaré

11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie 75005 Paris

Orateur

Martin Bridgeman (Boston College)

Description

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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