Central elements for quantum affine algebras and affine Macdonald's operators

1994/12/20 by Pavel Etingof, Etingof, Pavel · 1 citation
Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #Quantum Algebra (math.QA) #math.QA #q-alg

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.q-alg/9412007

13 pages, amstex

arxiv created 1994/12/20 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We describe a generalization of Drinfeld's description of the center of a quantum group to the case of quantum affine algebras. We use the obtained central elements to construct the affine analogue of Macdonald's difference operators.

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