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Mikhail Bershtein

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(1,k) CFT and RH problem with the c=-2 case

Following approach of Iorgov--Lisovyy--Teschner, we construct solutions of the (modified) Riemann--Hilbert problem using conformal blocks of $(1,k)$ Virasoro models. For $k>1$ case, the solution of this Riemann--Hilbert problem is not unique due to more singular behavior at punctures. On the CFT side the dimension of the space of conformal blocks also increases. We specifically study the $k=2$ case, which corresponds to the central charge $c=-2$ and symplectic fermions. We explicitly construct a corresponding solution of the modified Riemann--Hilbert problem in the case of 3 punctures and prove its uniqueness under suitable initial data conditions. We also obtain new bilinear relations for $c=-2$ tau functions.

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Athinization of irreducible $\widehat{\mathfrak{gl}}_n$-modules with dominant highest weights

We study the Gelfand-Tsetlin realization of generic Verma modules for the affine Lie algebra $\widehat{\mathfrak{gl}}_n$ by viewing them as thin modules over the affine Yangian $Y(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}_n)$. By results of arXiv:0812.4656, these modules admit a basis indexed by periodic Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns with explicit formulas for the Yangian action, and we identify them with the evaluation modules introduced by Kodera arXiv:1806.09884. Our main result describes the specialization from generic highest weights to dominant highest weights (not necessarily integral). We call the resulting construction athinization: an irreducible $\widehat{\mathfrak{gl}}_n$-module, which is not thin as a module over the affine Kac-Moody algebra, is realized as a thin module over the larger (and ''more affine'') algebra $Y(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}_n)$. Combinatorially, this realization is obtained by restricting the generic periodic Gelfand-Tsetlin basis to a distinguished subset of permitted patterns. We prove that the span of these patterns carries a well-defined affine Yangian action. In particular, this construction yields explicit Gelfand-Tsetlin-type bases for admissible representations of $\widehat{\mathfrak{gl}}_n$ in the sense of Kac-Wakimoto, providing a new combinatorial realization of these modules. We compare the formulas for characters coming from this combinatorics with those for minimal models of $W$-algebras of the type $A_n$ via the principal specialization. Further, we obtain analogous results for representations of $U_q\widehat{\mathfrak{gl}}_n$ via their realization as thin modules over the quantum toroidal algebra of $\mathfrak{gl}_n$.

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Deformed W-algebras and chiralized cluster seeds: subregular W-algebras and Inverse Quantum Hamiltonian Reduction

The recently introduced formalism of chiral cluster seeds replaces quantum cluster variables with deformed vertex operators. In this framework, a decorated quiver associated with a seed encodes the operator product expansions of the corresponding vertex operators. This formalism is applied to several $(q,t)$-deformed W-algebras, including $\mathcal{W}_{\mathfrak{q},\mathfrak{t}}(\mathfrak{gl}(N|M))$, $U_q(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}_2)$, and the deformed Bershadsky--Polyakov algebra. In particular, it is shown that different free field realizations of the currents are related by mutations of the associated chiral cluster seed. The second part of the paper introduces a $(q,t)$-deformation of the subregular W-algebras, denoted by $\mathcal{W}_{\mathfrak{q},\mathfrak{t}}^{\text{sub}}(\mathfrak{sl}(N))$. All free field realizations obtainable through seed mutations are described. An embedding of $\mathcal{W}_{\mathfrak{q},\mathfrak{t}}^{\text{sub}}(\mathfrak{sl}(N))$ into the free field realization of $\mathcal{W}_{\mathfrak{q},\mathfrak{t}}(\mathfrak{sl}(N))$ tensored with a rank-two Heisenberg algebra is constructed. This embedding may be viewed as a deformed analogue of inverse quantum Hamiltonian reduction. The relation between the subregular algebras and $\mathcal{W}_{\mathfrak{q},\mathfrak{t}}(\mathfrak{gl}(1|N))$ is also discussed.

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Cluster integrable systems

In these lecture notes, we give an introduction to cluster integrable systems. The topics include relativistic Toda systems, moduli spaces of framed local systems, Goncharov-Kenyon integrable systems, and quantization.

nlin.SI

Cluster Reductions, Mutations, and $q$-Painlevé Equations

We propose an extension of the Goncharov-Kenyon class of cluster integrable systems by their Hamiltonian reductions. This extension allows us to fill in the gap in cluster construction of the $q$-difference Painlevé equations, showing that all of them can be obtained as deautonomizations of the reduced Goncharov-Kenyon systems. Conjecturally, the isomorphisms of reduced Goncharov-Kenyon integrable systems are given by mutations in another, dual in some sense, cluster structure. These are the polynomial mutations of the spectral curve equations and polygon mutations of the corresponding decorated Newton polygons. In the Painlevé case the initial and dual cluster structures are isomorphic. It leads to self-duality between the spectral curve equation and the Painlevé Hamiltonian, and also extends the symmetry from affine to elliptic Weyl group.

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Highest-weight vectors and three-point functions in GKO coset decomposition

We revisit the classical Goddard-Kent-Olive coset construction. We find the formulas for the highest weight vectors in coset decomposition and calculate their norms. We also derive formulas for matrix elements of natural vertex operators between these vectors. This leads to relations on conformal blocks. Due to the AGT correspondence, these relations are equivalent to blowup relations on Nekrasov partition functions with the presence of the surface defect. These relations can be used to prove Kyiv formulas for the Painlev\'e tau-functions (following Nekrasov's method).

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Hamiltonian reductions in Matrix Painlevé systems

For certain finite groups $G$ of Bäcklund transformations we show that the dynamics of $G$-invariant configurations of $n|G|$ Calogero--Painlevé particles is equivalent to certain $n$-particle Calogero--Painlevé system. We also show that the reduction of dynamics on $G$-invariant subset of $n|G|\times n|G|$ matrix Painlevé system is equivalent to certain $n\times n$ matrix Painlevé system. The groups $G$ correspond to folding transformations of Painlevé equations. The proofs are based on the Hamiltonian reductions.

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NSR singular vectors from Uglov polynomials

It was conjectured in arXiv:1211.2788 that bosonization of singular vectors (in Neveu-Schwarz sector) of $\mathcal{N}=1$ super analog of the Virasoro algebra can be identified with Uglov symmetric function. In the paper we prove this conjecture. We also extend this result to the Ramond sector of $\mathcal{N}=1$ super-Virasoro algebra.

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Twisted Fock module of toroidal algebra via DAHA and vertex operators

We construct the twisted Fock module of quantum toroidal $\mathfrak{gl}_1$ algebra with a slope $n'/n$ using vertex operators of quantum affine $\mathfrak{gl}_n$. The proof is based on the $q$-wedge construction of an integrable level-one $U_q(\widehat{\mathfrak{gl}}_n)$-module and the representation theory of double affine Hecke algebra. The results are consistent with Gorsky-Neguţ conjecture (Kononov-Smirnov theorem) on stable envelopes for Hilbert schemes of points in the plane and can be viewed as a manifestation of $(\mathfrak{gl}_1,\mathfrak{gl}_n)$-duality.

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Quantum spectral problems and isomonodromic deformations

We develop a self-consistent approach to study the spectral properties of a class of quantum mechanical operators by using the knowledge about monodromies of $2\times 2$ linear systems (Riemann-Hilbert correspondence). Our technique applies to a variety of problems, though in this paper we only analyse in detail two examples. First we review the case of the (modified) Mathieu operator, which corresponds to a certain linear system on the sphere and makes contact with the Painlevé $\mathrm{III}_3$ equation. Then we extend the analysis to the 2-particle elliptic Calogero-Moser operator, which corresponds to a linear system on the torus. By using the Kiev formula for the isomonodromic tau functions, we obtain the spectrum of such operators in terms of self-dual Nekrasov functions ($ε_1+ε_2=0$). Through blowup relations, we also find Nekrasov-Shatashvili type of quantizations ($ε_2=0$). In the case of the torus with one regular singularity we obtain certain results which are interesting by themselves. Namely, we derive blowup equations (filling some gaps in the literature) and we relate them to the bilinear form of the isomonodromic deformation equations. In addition, we extract the $ε_2\to 0$ limit of the blowup relations from the regularized action functional and CFT arguments.

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Twisted Representations of Algebra of $q$-Difference Operators, Twisted $q$-$W$ Algebras and Conformal Blocks

We study certain representations of quantum toroidal $\mathfrak{gl}_1$ algebra for $q=t$. We construct explicit bosonization of the Fock modules $\mathcal{F}_u^{(n',n)}$ with a nontrivial slope $n'/n$. As a vector space, it is naturally identified with the basic level 1 representation of affine $\mathfrak{gl}_n$. We also study twisted $W$-algebras of $\mathfrak{sl}_n$ acting on these Fock modules. As an application, we prove the relation on $q$-deformed conformal blocks which was conjectured in the study of $q$-deformation of isomonodromy/CFT correspondence.

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Homomorphisms between different quantum toroidal and affine Yangian algebras

This paper concerns the relation between the quantum toroidal algebras and the affine Yangians of $\mathfrak{sl}_n$, denoted by $\mathcal{U}^{(n)}_{q_1,q_2,q_3}$ and $\mathcal{Y}^{(n)}_{h_1,h_2,h_3}$, respectively. Our motivation arises from the milestone work of Gautam and Toledano Laredo, where a similar relation between the quantum loop algebra $U_q(L \mathfrak{g})$ and the Yangian $Y_h(\mathfrak{g})$ has been established by constructing an isomorphism of $\mathbb{C}[[\hbar]]$-algebras $Φ:\widehat{U}_{\exp(\hbar)}(L\mathfrak{g})\to \widehat{Y}_\hbar(\mathfrak{g})$ (with $\ \widehat{}\ $ standing for the appropriate completions). These two completions model the behavior of the algebras in the formal neighborhood of $h=0$. The same construction can be applied to the toroidal setting with $q_i=\exp(\hbar_i)$ for $i=1,2,3$. In the current paper, we are interested in the more general relation: $\mathrm{q}_1=ω_{mn}e^{h_1/m}, \mathrm{q}_2=e^{h_2/m}, \mathrm{q}_3=ω_{mn}^{-1}e^{h_3/m}$, where $m,n\in \mathbb{N}$ and $ω_{mn}$ is an $mn$-th root of $1$. Assuming $ω_{mn}^m$ is a primitive $n$-th root of unity, we construct a homomorphism $Φ^{ω_{mn}}_{m,n}$ from the completion of the formal version of $\mathcal{U}^{(m)}_{\mathrm{q}_1,\mathrm{q}_2,\mathrm{q}_3}$ to the completion of the formal version of $\mathcal{Y}^{(mn)}_{h_1/mn,h_2/mn,h_3/mn}$. We propose two proofs of this result: (1) by constructing the compatible isomorphism between the faithful representations of the algebras; (2) by combining the direct verification of Gautam and Toledano Laredo for the classical setting with the shuffle approach.

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Exact results for ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on compact toric manifolds and equivariant Donaldson invariants

We provide a contour integral formula for the exact partition function of ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric $U(N)$ gauge theories on compact toric four-manifolds by means of supersymmetric localisation. We perform the explicit evaluation of the contour integral for $U(2)$ ${\cal N}=2$ theory on $\mathbb{P}^2$ for all instanton numbers. In the zero mass case, corresponding to the ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theory, we obtain the generating function of the Euler characteristics of instanton moduli spaces in terms of mock-modular forms. In the decoupling limit of infinite mass we find that the generating function of local and surface observables computes equivariant Donaldson invariants, thus proving in this case a long-standing conjecture by N. Nekrasov. In the case of vanishing first Chern class the resulting equivariant Donaldson polynomials are new.

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Quadratic algebras related to the bihamiltonian operad

We prove the conjectures on dimensions and characters of some quadratic algebras stated by B$.$L$.$Feigin. It turns out that these algebras are naturally isomorphic to the duals of the components of the bihamiltonian operad.

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