One-dimensional nil-DAHA and Whittaker functions. I. (Q1935515)

The paper is devoted to the study of the double affine Hecke algebra (DAHA) of type \(A_1\) and its degenerations. DAHA has two parameters \(q\) and \(t\), and has a natural polynomial representation. In a series of earlier papers, the first author constructed the non-symmetric generalizations of Macdonald polynomials defined as eigenvectors of a certain commutative subalgebra inside DAHA. In present paper, the authors write explicit formulas for nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials of type \(A_1\) and study their degenerations in the limit \(t\to 0\). In this limit, DAHA is transformed to nil-DAHA, which can be written explicitly by generators and relations, and nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials are transformed to a certain nonsymmetric analogue of \(q\)-Whittaker functions. A possible connection to the work of \textit{A. Givental} and \textit{Y.-P. Lee} [Invent. Math. 151, No. 1, 193-219 (2003; Zbl 1051.14063)] on quantum \(K\)-theory of flag varieties is also discussed.