Poisson structures on loop spaces of $\mathbb{C} P^n$ and an $r$-matrix associated with the universal elliptic curve
Alexander Odesskii

TL;DR
The paper constructs a family of Poisson structures on loop spaces of complex projective spaces, parametrized by elliptic curves, and introduces an elliptic r-matrix of hydrodynamic type related to these structures.
Contribution
It introduces a novel family of Poisson structures on loop spaces of al P^{n-1} parametrized by elliptic curves and extends them to homogeneous structures using an elliptic r-matrix.
Findings
Family of Poisson structures parametrized by elliptic moduli.
Extension to homogeneous Poisson structures with additional field al al.
Representation of structures via elliptic r-matrix of hydrodynamic type.
Abstract
We construct a family of Poisson structures of hydrodynamic type on the loop space of . This family is parametrized by the moduli space of elliptic curves or, in other words, by the modular parameter . This family can be lifted to a homogeneous Poisson structure on the loop space of but in order to do that we need to upgrade the modular parameter to an additional field with Poisson brackets where are coordinates on . These homogeneous Poisson structures can be written in terms of an elliptic -matrix of hydrodynamic type.
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Poisson structures on loop spaces of and an -matrix associated with the universal elliptic curve
Alexander Odesskii
Abstract
We construct a family of Poisson structures of hydrodynamic type on the loop space of . This family is parametrized by the moduli space of elliptic curves or, in other words, by the modular parameter . This family can be lifted to a homogeneous Poisson structure on the loop space of but in order to do that we need to upgrade the modular parameter to an additional field with Poisson brackets where are coordinates on . These homogeneous Poisson structures can be written in terms of an elliptic -matrix of hydrodynamic type.
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Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Elliptic dynamical r-matrix of hydrodynamic type
- 3 Homogeneous Poisson structures on loop spaces
- 4 Weierstrass’s functions and modular forms
- 5 Conclusion and outlook
- 6 Appendix
1 Introduction
Consider a holomorphic Poisson structure on a complex manifold . It can be written in local coordinates as
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where are holomorphic functions in . Such Poisson structures are well understood locally [1, 2]: in a neighborhood of any generic point one can always choose coordinates such that are constants. It is an interesting and hard problem however to classify and/or study global holomorphic Poisson structures [3, 4, 5] on a given compact complex manifold . Even in a basic case no classification results are known for .
Consider the simplest case of . Let be affine coordinates on . It is clear that
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where is a polynomial in . Moreover, (resp. ) should be a polynomial in (reps. in ). Therefore, is an arbitrary polynomial of degree . After a projective change of variables we obtain (in generic case)
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where are parameters. In other words, Poisson structures on are parametrized by it’s set of zeros which is an elliptic curve (or it’s degeneration) given by a cubic in .
Let be homogeneous coordinates on . It turns out that the Poisson structure (1.1) on can be lifted to a homogeneous Poisson structure on as follows:
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where . Indeed, computing Poisson bracket between and by virtue of (1.2) we obtain (1.1).
In general, given a homogeneous Poisson structure on of the form
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one can always obtain a Poisson structure on with homogeneous coordinates . Moreover, it is known [3, 4] that any Poisson structure on can be obtained in this way.
In this paper we are interested in Poisson structures of the form
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where are local coordinates on a complex manifold111These Poisson structures appeared in the literature by different names such as coisson structures [7], Poisson structures on loop space of [8], Poisson structures of hydrodynamic type [6]. In this paper we often abuse language by referring to these as to just Poisson structures on . promoted to fields and are holomorphic functions in . These Poisson structures are also well understood locally in non-degenerate case [6]: if , then one can always choose local coordinates such that are constants and . In this paper however we are interested in global holomorphic Poisson structures of the form (1.4) on projective spaces .
Consider the simplest case of with affine coordinate . We have
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where are polynomials. Anticommutativity and Jacobi identity lead to the constraint . Computing we obtain another constraint: should be a polynomial in . Therefore, is an arbitrary polynomial of degree less or equal to 4 and our Poisson structure reads:
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Let be homogeneous coordinates on . Is it possible to lift the Poisson structure (1.5) on to a homogeneous Poisson structure on ? Such Poisson structure should have the form
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where are constants. The answer to this question is negative:
Proposition 1. If a polynomial has distinct roots, then there is no Poisson structure of the form (1.6) such that satisfy (1.5) by virtue of (1.6).
Proof. Let roots of be distinct. Using projective transformations we can send these roots to . Therefore, without loss of generality, we can set where . Computing by virtue of (1.6) and comparing the result with (1.5) we obtain linear equations for coefficients . Anticommutativity and Jacobi identity for (1.6) give additional linear and quadratic equations for . Direct calculation shows that this system of equations does not have any solutions if .
There exists however a way to construct a homogeneous Poisson structure similar to (1.6) but in order to do that we need to introduce a dynamical variable. This can be done in a natural way: the family (1.5) is parametrized by an isomorphism class of elliptic curve222Which is a double cover of without four roots of and is given by . or, more explicitly, by a modular parameter , . Let us promote this modular parameter to an additional field with Poisson brackets . We will use the following
Lemma 1. Consider a Poisson structure of the form:
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on the set of variables where are functions in . This Poisson structure can be descended to a family of Poisson structures on in the following way:
1. Introduce affine coordinates on by .
2. Compute by virtue of (1.7). Write these brackets as differential polynomials in .
3. Replace by in obtained formulas for brackets and declare that is a parameter.
Proof. Note that by virtue of (1.7). This means that the field belongs to the center of the Poisson algebra generated by and can be set to a parameter which we also denote by . It is also clear that we obtain a family of Poisson structures on (because we can replace by any other in our construction of affine coordinates ).
Using this Lemma we construct a lifting of the Poisson structure (1.5) as follows:
Proposition 2. The following formulas
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define a Poisson structure on the set of variables . Here the functions satisfy differential equations (4.22).
Moreover, the variables satisfy (1.5) with .
In this paper we construct a generalization of this homogeneous Poisson structure to an arbitrary number of variables . According to Lemma 1 this gives a family of Poisson structures of hydrodynamic type on for each . This family for each is parametrized by a modular parameter .
In Section 2 we construct an analog of classical dynamical -matrix which we call an -matrix of hydrodynamic type. This is a certain Poisson structure of hydrodynamic type on the set of variables where is a spectral parameter and plays the role of a dynamical variable. Structure constants of this Poisson structure can be written in terms of Jacobi forms with modular variable .
In Section 3 we explain how to construct homogeneous Poisson structures of hydrodynamic type on for arbitrary using our -matrix of hydrodynamic type. Our variable serves as a generating function in this construction. Explicit (and really cumbersome) formulas for these homogeneous Poisson structures can be found in Appendix.
In Section 4 we collect definitions and results for elliptic functions and modular forms which we need in the main text.
In Section 5 we outline possible directions of further research.
2 Elliptic dynamical r-matrix of hydrodynamic type
Recall that a classical -matrix defines a Poisson structure of the forms333Here are complex variables called spectral parameters. Notice that here and in the sequel are meromorphic functions in complex variables which may have poles. Therefore, our Poisson structure is not defined at each values of spectral parameters. We require that anticommutativity and Jacobi identity hold each time when the corresponding Poisson brackets are defined.
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Moreover, a Poisson structure of the form (2.8) on the set of variables defines a classical -matrix. One can also define a so-called dynamical -matrix as a Poisson structure on the set of variables of the form
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We want to extend these definitions to the Poisson structures of hydrodynamic type and will call the corresponding object a (dynamical) -matrix of hydrodynamic type.
Define brackets on the set of variables by444Here and in the sequel indexes like stand for partial derivatives.
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and is an arbitrary constant.
Theorem 1. The brackets (2.10), (2.11) define a Poisson structure on the set of variables .
Proof. Using the identity (4.24) we can write
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After substitution of this formula for into our brackets one can proof anticommutativity and Jacobi identity by direct calculation using formulas (4.18), (4.22), (4.23) for derivatives.
The following statement provides infinitely many reductions of our Poisson structure (2.10), (2.11) in flat coordinates.
Theorem 2. Define Poisson structure on the set of variables as follows:
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Then the variables666Here is the Weierstrass’s sigma function, see (4.25),(4.26), 4.27).
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satisfy (2.10), (2.11) with by virtue of (2.13).
3 Homogeneous Poisson structures on loop spaces
Let be the space of elliptic functions in one variable with respect to and holomorphic outside . For let be the subspace of functions with poles of order on . It is clear that . It is known that the functions
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form a basis of the vector space and the functions form a basis of the space . Note that has a pole of order at .
Theorem 3. Set and
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in (2.10), (2.11). Then the formulas (2.10), (2.11) define a homogeneous Poisson structure of hydrodynamic type on the set of variables .
Proof. Substitution of (3.14) into (2.10) gives the following brackets:
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Let us substitute (3.14) into (2.11). In the l.h.s. we obtain
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Let us denote by the difference of the l.h.s. and the r.h.s. of (2.11). One can check by direct calculation that is an elliptic function with respect to each of variable . Moreover, belongs to as a function of and it belongs to as a function of . Therefore, is an element of the vector space . It is clear that is a basis777Using the property where is an arbitrary function we replace all terms containing by the corresponding terms with . After that we identify . of . Expanding by this basis and equating to zero coefficient at we obtain a formula for .
Remark 1. Explicit formulas for are cumbersome, see Appendix. To obtain these formulas we write in the form
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Comparing with (3.14) we see that are polynomials with respect to . Let us also use the formula (2.12) for . Substituting these expressions for and into the difference of the l.h.s. and the r.h.s. of (2.11) and using formulas (4.18), (4.22), (4.23) to eliminate derivatives by and to reduce powers of to either 0 or 1 we obtain a polynomial in of degree 1 with respect to each variable. Equating to zero coefficients of this polynomial we obtain explicit formulas from Appendix.
4 Weierstrass’s functions and modular forms
Here we collect formulas which we need in the main text. Proofs (in slightly different notations) can be found in [9, 10]. Let be a modular parameter, we assume .
The Weierstrass’s elliptic function is defined by
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The Weierstrass zeta function is defined by
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The following formulas for derivatives of these functions with respect to hold:
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Here the modular forms are given by
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Notice that the Weierstrass’s zeta function is not elliptic. In particular, we have
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where is given by
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The following formulas for derivatives with respect to hold:
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Notice that we need the function in order to write these formulas for derivatives. Moreover, derivatives of Weierstrass’s functions can also be computed:
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We also need the following identity:
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Proof of the identities (4.23), (4.24) is standard: to check that the difference between the r.h.s. and the l.h.s is an elliptic function and to calculate the decomposition at each pole.
The Weierstrass’s sigma function is defined by
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The following formulas for derivatives with respect to and hold:
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5 Conclusion and outlook
It follows from (3.14) that the space of generators of our homogeneous Poisson structure on with a basis can be identified with a dual space to a space of theta functions of order . Therefore, our Poisson structure is invariant with respect to a projective action of . It will be interesting to write our Poisson structure in a different basis, so that it become manifestly invariant. More generally, it will be interesting to investigate if there exist other invariant homogeneous Poisson structures of hydrodynamic type. For example, in the case of usual homogeneous Poisson structures there exist Poisson algebras parametrized by a modular parameter and a discrete parameter [11, 12, 13].
Our -matrix of hydrodynamic type is connected with a moduli space of elliptic curves. It will be interesting to generalize this to higher genus.
It will be interesting to investigate a quantization (if any) of our Poisson structures of hydrodynamic type, for example, a quantization of our -matrix.
6 Appendix
The brackets can be written as follows:
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where are homogeneous quadratic polynomials in and are homogeneous quadratic polynomials in . Let
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We also suppress dependence of in . Recall that indexes stand for partial derivatives.
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