Characteristic equation for symplectic groupoid and cluster algebras

Abstract

We use the Darboux coordinate representation found by two of the authors (L.Ch. and M.Sh.) for entries of general symplectic leaves of the $\mathcal A_n$-groupoid of upper-triangular matrices to express roots of the characteristic equation $\det(\mathbb A-\lambda \mathbb A^{\text{T}})=0$, with $\mathbb A\in \mathcal A_n$, in terms of Casimirs of this Darboux coordinate representation, which is based on cluster variables of Fock--Goncharov higher Teichm\"uller spaces for the algebra $sl_n$. We show that roots of the characteristic equation are simple monomials of cluster Casimir elements. This statement remains valid in the quantum case as well. We consider a generalization of $\mathcal A_n$-groupoid to a $\mathcal A_{Sp_{2m}}$-groupoid.