Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory

Abstract

In this paper, starting from a split semisimple real Lie group G with trivial center, we define a family of varieties with additional structures. We describe them as cluster χ-varieties, as defined in [FG2]. In particular they are Poisson varieties. We define canonical Poisson maps of these varieties to the group G equipped with the standard Poisson—Lie structure defined by V. Drinfeld in [D, D1]. One of them maps to the group birationally and thus provides G with canonical rational coordinates.