Department of Mathematics

Department of Mathematics Seminars and Talks

 

Seminar

Symplectic

Talk Information
Title
A Morita Equivalence for Gelfand-Dikii Poisson Structures
Start date and time
15:10 on Monday April 07, 2025
Duration in minutes
50 (until 16:00 on Monday April 07, 2025)
Room
BA6183, Bahen Center, 40 St. George St.
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Abstract

In this talk, the Gelfand-Dikii Poisson structure is introduced as a Poisson structure on the space of $n$-th order Hill operators. For $n = 2$, the space of Hill operators is identified with the dual of the Virasoro algebra at level one, making the Poisson structure linear. For $n > 2$, the Poisson structure is quadratic. A coordinate-free construction of this Poisson structure is provided by the Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction. The symplectic leaves of this Poisson structure have been determined by Khesin and Ovsienko. In this talk, I will construct a symplectic groupoid integrating this Poisson structure and prove that it is Morita equivalent to a quasi-symplectic groupoid integrating the Cartan-Dirac structure on $\widetilde{PSL}(n,\mathbb{R})$.

Speaker Information
Full Name
Ahmadreza Khazaeipoul
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University of Toronto
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