Boundary quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations and fusion

Nicolai Reshetikhin, Jasper Stokman, Bart Hendrik Maarten Vlaar

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Abstract

In this paper we extend our previous results concerning Jackson integral solutions of the boundary quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations with diagonal K-operators to higher-spin representations of quantum affine $\mathfrak{sl}_2$. First we give a systematic exposition of known results on $R$-operators acting in the tensor product of evaluation representations in Verma modules over quantum $\mathfrak{sl}_2$. We develop the corresponding fusion of $K$-operators, which we use to construct diagonal $K$-operators in these representations. We construct Jackson integral solutions of the associated boundary quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations and explain how in the finite-dimensional case they can be obtained from our previous results by the fusion procedure.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)137–177
Number of pages41
JournalAnnales Henri Poincare
Volume17
Issue number1
Early online date3 Jan 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2016

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36 pages; some small additions and corrections concerning mero-uniform convergence (Defn. 6.1) and rectified some notation issues for the function \mathcal{Y} (p21 and onwards). appears in Annales Henri Poincar\'e, 2014

Keywords

  • math.QA
  • math-ph
  • math.MP

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