Traces of intertwiners for quantum affine algebras and difference equations (after Etingof-Schiffmann-Varchenko) (Q1630654)

The author presents complete proofs for the results of Etingof-Schiffmann-Varchenko on traces of intertwiners of untwisted quantum affine algebras in the opposite coproduct and the standard grading. The author shows that certain normalized generalized traces \(F^{V_1,\ldots,V_n}(z_1,\ldots,z_n;\lambda,\omega,\mu,\kappa)\) for \(U_q(\widehat{\mathfrak{g}})\) solve four commuting systems of q-difference equations: the Macdonald-Ruijsenaars, dual Macdonald-Ruijsenaars, q-KZB, and dual q-KZB equations. Also, some symmetry property for these renormalized trace functions are shown.