Description:
Let G G be a semisimple simply connected complex algebraic group. Let U U be the unipotent radical of a Borel subgroup in G G . We describe the coordinate rings of U U (resp., G / U G/U , G G ) in terms of two (resp., four, eight) birational charts introduced by Lusztig [Total positivity in reductive groups, Birkhäuser Boston, Boston, MA, 1994; Bull. Inst. Math. Sin. (N.S.) 14 (2019), pp. 403–459] in connection with the study of total positivity.