Coordinate rings and birational charts

Abstract

Let $G$ be a semisimple simply connected complex algebraic group. Let $U$ be the unipotent radical of a Borel subgroup in $G$. We describe the coordinate rings of $U$ (resp., $G/U$, $G$) in terms of two (resp., four, eight) birational charts introduced in [L94, L19] in connection with the study of total positivity.