A-type quiver varieties and ADHM moduli spaces (Q2223724)

This paper studies relation between equivariant \(K\)-theories of the framed \(A_n\)-type quiver variety \(X_n\) and of the rank \(r\) ADHM moduli space \(M_r= \bigsqcup_{k \ge 0}M_{r,k}\), where \(k\) denotes the instanton number. The \(K\)-theories considered are the equivariant quantum \(K\)-theory \(H_n:=K_{T^{n+2}}(QM(\mathbb{P}^1,X_n))\) and the equivariant \(K\)-theory \(K_{r,k}:=K_{T^2}(M_{r,k})\), where \(T\) denotes the one-dimensional torus. The main results are Theorem 3.3 and Theorem 4.6, where an embedding \(\bigoplus_{l=0}^k K_{r,l} \hookrightarrow H_{n r}\) is constructed. The embedding is designed to map the \(T^2\)-fixed point classes in \(K_{r,l}\) to the coefficients of vertex functions in \(H_{n r}\). The construction is done by explicit calculations using Macdonald symmetric polynomials. The paper also proposes an interesting Conjecture 5.4 which relates the eigenvalues of quantum multiplication operators in \(K\)-theory of \(M_r\) with those of the elliptic Ruijsenaars-Schneider model.