Abstract

In this paper, we construct an explicit map from planar bicolored (plabic) trivalent graphs representing a given irreducible positroid cell {{mathcal {S}}}_{{mathcal {M}}}^{text{ TNN }} in the totally non-negative Grassmannian Gr^{text{ TNN }}(k,n) to the spectral data for the relevant class of real regular Kadomtsev–Petviashvili II (KP-II) solutions, thus completing the search of real algebraic-geometric data for the KP-II equation started in Abenda and Grinevich (Commun Math Phys 361(3):1029–1081, 2018; Sel Math New Ser 25(3):43, 2019). The spectral curve is modeled on the Krichever construction for degenerate finite-gap solutions and is a rationally degenerate {texttt {M}}-curve, Gamma , dual to the graph. The divisors are real regular KP-II divisors in the ovals of Gamma , i.e. they fulfill the conditions for selecting real regular finite-gap KP-II solutions in Dubrovin and Natanzon (Izv Akad Nauk SSSR Ser Mat 52:267–286, 1988). Since the soliton data are described by points in {{mathcal {S}}}_{{mathcal {M}}}^{text{ TNN }}, we establish a bridge between real regular finite-gap KP-II solutions (Dubrovin and Natanzon, 1988) and real regular multi-line KP-II solitons which are known to be parameterized by points in Gr^{text{ TNN }}(k,n) (Chakravarty and Kodama in Stud Appl Math 123:83–151, 2009; Kodama and Williams in Invent Math 198:637–699, 2014). We use the geometric characterization of spaces of relations on plabic networks introduced in Abenda and Grinevich (Adv Math 406:108523, 2022; Int Math Res Not 2022:rnac162, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnac162) to prove the invariance of this construction with respect to the many gauge freedoms on the network. Such systems of relations were proposed in Lam (in: Current developments in mathematics, International Press, Somerville, 2014) for the computation of scattering amplitudes for on-shell diagrams N=4 SYM (Arkani-Hamed et al. in Grassmannian geometry of scattering amplitudes, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016) and govern the totally non-negative amalgamation of the little positive Grassmannians, Gr^{text{ TP }}(1,3) and Gr^{text{ TP }}(2,3), into any given positroid cell {{mathcal {S}}}_{{mathcal {M}}}^{text{ TNN }}subset {Gr^{text{ TNN }} (k,n)}. In our setting they control the reality and regularity properties of the KP-II divisor. Finally, we explain the transformation of both the curve and the divisor both under Postnikov’s moves and reductions and under amalgamation of positroid cells, and apply our construction to some examples.

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