Yangians and Gelfand-Zetlin bases (Q1343240)

Consider the chain of Lie subalgebras \({\mathfrak{gl}}_1\subset{\mathfrak{gl}}_2\subset\cdots\subset{\mathfrak{gl}}_n\), and let \(Z({\mathfrak{gl}}_r)\) be the centre of \(U({\mathfrak{gl}}_r)\). If \(V\) is a finite-dimensional irreducible \({\mathfrak{gl}}_n\)-module, a Gelfand-Zetlin basis of \(V\) is a basis consisting of eigenvectors for the commutative subalgebra of \(U({\mathfrak{gl}}_n)\) generated by \(Z({\mathfrak{gl}}_1), Z({\mathfrak{gl}}_2),\cdots, Z({\mathfrak{gl}}_n)\) (it is unique up to scalar multiples). In this paper, the authors describe \(Z({\mathfrak{gl}}_n)\), and hence the Gelfand-Zetlin basis, explicitly by using the canonical ``evaluation'' homomorphism \(Y({\mathfrak{gl}}_n)\to U({\mathfrak{gl}}_n)\) and the known description of the centre of the Yangian \(Y({\mathfrak{gl}}_n)\). \(q\)-analogues are also given.