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We show that the Shapovalov norm of a Bethe vector in the Gaudin model is equal to the Hessian of the logarithm of the corresponding master function at the corresponding isolated critical point. We show that different Bethe vectors are orthogonal. These facts are corollaries of a general Bethe ansatz type construction, suggested in this paper and associated with an arbitrary arrangement of hyperplanes.
Solutions of the Bethe ansatz equations associated to the XXX model of a simple Lie algebra come in families called the populations. We prove that a population is isomorphic to the flag variety of the Langlands dual Lie algebra. The proof is based on the correspondence between the solutions of the Bethe ansatz equations and special difference operators which we call the discrete Miura opers. The notion of a discrete Miura oper is one of the main results of the paper. For a discrete Miura oper D, associated to a point of a population, we show that all solutions of the difference equation DY=0 are rational functions, and the solutions can be written explicitly in terms of points composing the population.
We introduce and study "elliptic zeta values", a two-parameter deformation of the values of Riemann's zeta function at positive integers. They are essentially Taylor coefficients of the logarithm of the elliptic gamma function, and share the SL(3,Z) modular properties of this function. Elliptic zeta values at even integers are related to Eisenstein series and thus to sums of odd powers of divisors. The elliptic zeta values at odd integers can be expressed in terms of generating series of sums of even powers of divisors.
We show that the Bethe vectors are non-zero vectors in the sl_{r+1} Gaudin model. Moreover, we show that the norm of a Bethe vector is equal to the Hessian of the corresponding master function at the corresponding non-degenerate critical point. This result is a byproduct of functorial properties of Bethe vectors studied in this paper. As other byproducts of functoriality we show that the Bethe vectors form a basis in the tensor product of several copies of first and last fundamental sl_{r+1} modules and we show transversality of some Schubert cycles in the Grassmannian of r+1-dimensional planes in the space of polynomials of one variable of degree not greater than d.
We describe the algebra of finite order invariants on the set of all $(n,2)$-torus knots.
Elliptic Macdonald polynomials of sl(2)-type and level 2 are introduced. Suitable limits of elliptic Macdonald polynomials are the standard Macdonald polynomials and conformal blocks. Identities for elliptic Macdonald polynomials, in particular their modular properties, are studied.
In our previous paper math.QA/9907181, to every finite dimensional representation V of the quantum group U_q(g), we attached the trace function F^V(λ,μ), with values in End V[0], obtained by taking the (weighted) trace in a Verma module of an intertwining operator. We showed that these trace functions satisfy the Macdonald-Ruijsenaars and the qKZB equations, their dual versions, and the symmetry identity. In this paper we show that the trace functions satisfy the orthogonality relation and the qKZB-heat equation. For g=sl_2, this statement is the trigonometric degeneration of a conjecture of Felder and the second author, proved by them for the 3-dimensional irreducible V. We also establish the orthogonality relation and qKZB-heat equation for trace functions obtained by taking traces in finite dimensional representations (rather than Verma modules). If g=sl_n and V=S^{kn}C^n, these functions are known to be Macdonald polynomials of type A. In this case, the orthogonality relation reduces to the Macdonald inner product identities, and the qKZB-heat equation coincides with the q-Macdonald-Mehta identity, proved by Cherednik.
We present an elliptic version of Selberg's integral formula.
In this paper we study twisted traces of products of intertwining operators for quantum affine algebras. They are interesting special functions, depending on two weights lambda, mu, three scalar parameters q, omega, k, and spectral parameters z_1,...,z_N, which may be regarded as q-analogs of conformal blocks of the Wess-Zumino-Witten model on an elliptic curve. It is expected that in the rank 1 case they essentially coincide with the elliptic hypergeometric functions defined in math.QA/0110081. Our main result is that after a suitable renormalization the traces satisfy four systems of difference equations -- the Macdonald-Ruijsenaars equation, the q-Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard equation, and their dual versions. We also show that in the case when the twisting automorphism is trivial, the trace functions are symmetric under the permutation lambda <--> mu, k <--> omega. Thus, our results here generalize our previous results, dealing with the case q = 1 and the finite dimensional case.
This paper is a set of lecture notes of my course "Special functions, KZ type equations, and representation theory" given at MIT during the spring semester of 2002. The notes do not contain new results, and are an exposition (mostly without proofs) of various published results in this area, illustrated by the simplest nontrivial examples. Some references are given at the end of each lecture, but their list is not complete; the reader is referred to the original articles for proofs and for complete references.
We study the properties of one-dimensional hypergeometric integral solutions of the q-difference ("quantum") analogue of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard equations on tori. We show that they also obey a difference KZB heat equation in the modular parameter, give formulae for modular transformations, and prove a completeness result, by showing that the associated Fourier transform is invertible. These results are based on SL(3,Z) transformation properties parallel to those of elliptic gamma functions.
We introduce a q-deformation of the genus one sl_2 Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard heat equation. We show that this equation for the dependence on the moduli of elliptic curves is compatible with the qKZB equations, which give the dependence on the marked points.
Following a preceding paper of Tarasov and the second author, we define and study a new structure, which may be regarded as the dynamical analogue of the Weyl group for Lie algebras and of the quantum Weyl group for quantized enveloping algebras. We give some applications of this new structure.
The main object considered in this paper is the trace function, defined as a suitably normalized trace of a product of intertwining operators for the Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum group, multiplied by the exponential of an element of the Cartan subalgebra. This function depends of two parameters -- the element of the Cartan subalgebra, and the highest weight of the Verma module in which the trace is taken. The main results of the paper are that the trace function satisfies two systems of difference equations with respect to the first parameter (the quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard and Macdonald-Ruijsenaars equations), and that it is symmetric with respect to the two parameters. In particular, this implies that for each of the above two systems of equations there is the dual system with respect to the second parameter, which is also satisfied by the trace function. The paper establishes a connection between the I.Frenkel-Reshetikhin theory of quantum conformal blocks, the work of Felder-Mukhin-Tarasov-Varchenko on the quantum KZB and Ruijsenaars equations, the work of Etingof-I.Frenkel- Kirillov Jr.-Styrkas on traces of intetwining operators, and the Macdonald- Cherednik theory. The methods of the paper are based on the theory of dynamical twists and R-matrices.
The elliptic gamma function is a generalization of the Euler gamma function and is associated to an elliptic curve. Its trigonometric and rational degenerations are the Jackson q-gamma function and the Euler gamma function, respectively. The elliptic gamma function appears in Baxter's formula for the free energy of the eight-vertex model and in the hypergeometric solutions of the elliptic qKZB equations. In this paper, the properties of this function are studied. In particular we show that elliptic gamma functions are generalizations of automorphic forms of G=SL(3,Z) x Z^3 associated to a non-trivial class in H^3(G,Z).
For any simple Lie algebra g and any complex number q which is not zero or a nontrivial root of unity, we construct a dynamical quantum group (Hopf algebroid), whose representation theory is essentially the same as the representation theory of the quantum group U_q(g). This dynamical quantum group is obtained from the fusion and exchange relations between intertwining operators in representation theory of U_q(g), and is an algebraic structure standing behind these relations.