Determinant formula for solutions of the quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation associated with \(U_q (sl_n)\) at \(|q|=1\) (Q1577647): Difference between revisions

Solutions of quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation with values in a tensor product of representations of the quantum algebra \(U_q(sl_2)\) were well studied. The authors study the hypergeometric solutions of the quantum Knizhnik--Zamolodchikov equation with values in a tensor product of vector representations of the quantized universal enveloping algebra \(U_q(sl_n)\) when \(q\) satisfy the condition \(|q|=1\). For each weight subspace they construct (in the integral form) fundamental matrix solutions of the equation. The main result of the paper is the evaluation of the corresponding determinant (whose entries are given by these multidimensional integrals of \(q\)-hypergeometric type). This evaluation is made as follows. It is shown that the left and the right hand sides of the corresponding equality satisfy the same system of difference equations and have to be proportional. To compute the proportionality coefficient, they study suitable assymptotics of the hypergeometric solutions. This shows that the proportionality coefficient splits into a product of contributions of each tensor factor. These contributions are calculated explicitly.