Geometry of q-hypergeometric functions, quantum affine algebras and elliptic quantum groups
Geometry of q-hypergeometric functions, quantum affine algebras and elliptic quantum groups
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1997-03
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V. Tarasov;A. Varchenko
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V. Tarasov;A. Varchenko
The trigonometric quantized Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation (qKZ equation) associated with the quantum group $U_q(sl_2)$ is a system of linear difference equations with values in a tensor product of $U_q(sl_2)$ Verma modules. We solve the equation in terms of multidimensional $q$-hypergeometric functions and define a natural isomorphism between the space of solutions and the tensor product of the corresponding evaluation Verma modules over the elliptic quantum group $E_{\rho,\gamma}(sl_2)$, where parameters $\rho$ and $\gamma$ are related to the parameter $q$ of the quantum group $U_q(sl_2)$ and the step $p$ of the qKZ equation via $p=e^{2\pii\rho}$ and $q=e^{-2\pii\gamma}$. We construct asymptotic solutions associated with suitable asymptotic zones and compute the transition functions between the asymptotic solutions in terms of the dynamical elliptic R-matrices. This description of the transition functions gives a connection between representation theories of the quantum loop algebra $U_q(\widetilde{gl}_2$ and the elliptic quantum group $E_{\rho,\gamma}(sl_2)$ and is analogous to the Kohno-Drinfeld theorem on the monodromy group of the differential Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation. In order to establish these results we construct a discrete Gauss-Manin connection, in particular, a suitable discrete local system, discrete homology and cohomology groups with coefficients in this local system, and identify an associated difference equation with the qKZ equation.