Littelmann’s path model and Mirkovic-Vilonen polytopes

Date/heure
21 février 2022
14:00 - 15:00

Lieu
Salle de conférences Nancy

Oratrice ou orateur
Tristan Bozec

Catégorie d'évènement
Séminaire de géométrie complexe


Résumé

On the one hand, the Littelmann’s path model is a combinatorial tool that describes the representation theory of any (symmetrizable) Kac-Moody Lie algebra, available since 1994. The paths in this model are piecewise linear paths in the finite dimensional real vector space spanned by the fundamental weights. But this vector space together with its affine hyperplanes arrangement is also the standard apartment of an object called the masure, introduced by Gaussent-Rousseau in 2008. The masure is playing the role of the Bruhat-Tits building in the Kac-Moody setting. On the other hand, in the finite dimensional setting, Mirkovic and Vilonen developed a geometric model of the aforementionned representations, by introducing subvarieties in the affine Grassmannian associated to a reductive group, first in 2000. Most of the algebraic information can be derived from the associated polytopes, and there is a bijection between paths and polytopes. In 2014, Baumann, Kamnitzer and Tingley defined the Mirkovic-Vilonen polytopes in the Kac-Moody setting using preprojective algebras. Our goal is to take advantage of the combinatoric/geometric nature of the masure to realize Mirkovic-Vilonen polytopes directly from Littelmann’s paths.
This is a joint work with Stéphane Gaussent.