The quantum dynamics of the compactified trigonometric Ruijsenaars-Schneider model (Q1290453)

A compactified version of the trigonometric Ruijsenaars-Schneider particle model with a phase space that is symplectomorphic to the complex projective space \(\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^N\) is quantized. It is shown how canonical quantization \((p_j\to \partial/i\partial x_j)\) gives rise to discrete difference operator Hamiltonians acting in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space of lattice functions over the classical configuration space. The spectrum of the quantum model is determined in explicit form and the corresponding wave functions are expressed in terms of Macdonald polynomials on the unit circle. The diagonalization of the quantum model is carried out and some of the results are reformulated in terms of algebraic combinatorics.