Abstract:
We begin with the recently found solution in terms of cluster algebras of the
problem of symplectic groupoid: how to describe manifolds of pairs $(B,A)$
where $B$ is an $SL_N$ matrix, $A$ is unipotent upper-triangular matrix, and
$BAB^T$ is again unipotent upper-triangular matrix. Solutions obtained
possess a natural Poisson and quantum algebra structures and open a wide
spectrum of possibilities: from describing Teichmuller spaces of closed Riemann
surfaces of arbitrary genus $g\ge 2$ to a so far hypothetical relation to
Cherednik's DAHA and conformal blocks of the Liouville theory. Based on the
forthcoming joint paper with Misha Shapiro.