On the highest weight modules over elliptic quantum groups (Q1283212)

The purpose of this letter is to define and construct highest weight modules for Felder's elliptic quantum groups. This is done by using exchange matrices for intertwining operators between modules over quantum affine algebras. A similar problem for the elliptic quantum group corresponding to Belavin's \(R\)-matrix was posed in [\textit{O. Foda} et al., Lett. Math. Phys. 32, 259-268 (1994; Zbl 0821.17011)]. This problem, as well as its analogue for Felder's \(R\)-matrix was solved in a recent paper [\textit{M. Jimbo} et al., Preprint q-alg/9712029]. The goal of this paper is to suggest another solution of this problem. The approach is similar to that of Jimbo's preprint (as above) but somewhat different. Namely, the authors construct the quasi-Hopf twist not as an infinite product of \(R\)-matrices, but axiomatically as a fusion matrix for intertwining operators (this forces one to consider intertwining operators taking values in arbitrary, not necessarily finite-dimensional modules). For finite-dimensional Lie algebras and quantum groups, a similar construction was introduced in [\textit{P. Etingof} et al., Preprint Math. 9801135]. The equivalence of the two approaches (in the paper under review and Jimbo's) follows from the fact that the fusion matrix satisfies a version of the quantum KZ equations, which implies that it is a one-sided infinite product of (modified) \(R\)-matrices.