Representations of the quantum toroidal algebra on highest weight modules of the quantum affine algebra of type \({\mathfrak {gl}}_N\) (Q1974555)

The quantum toroidal algebra \(\widehat{U}\) is a two-parameter deformation of the enveloping algebra of the universal central extension of the double-loop Lie algebra \(\text{sl}_N[x^{\pm 1}, y^{\pm 1}]\). No general results on the representation theory of \(\widehat{U}\) is available at present. Therefore, it is desirable, as a preliminary step towards a development of a general theory, to obtain concrete examples of representations of \(\widehat{U}\). The main reason why representations of central extensions of the double-loop Lie algebra and of their deformations such as \(\widehat{U}\) are interesting is that one expects applications to higher-dimensional exactly solvable field theories. The authors were led to this topic while trying to understand the meaning of the level 0 action of the quantum affine algebra \(U'({\widehat {\text{sl}_N}})\) which was defined by the authors in [Commun. Math. Phys. 190, 549-583 (1998; Zbl 0915.17014)] on each level 1 irreducible integrable highest weight module of the algebra \(U({\widehat {\text{gl}_N}})\). These level 0 actions appear as the \(q\)-analogues of the Yangian actions on level 1 irreducible integrable modules of \({\widehat {\text{sl}_N}}\). In the paper, a representation of the quantum toroidal algebra \(\widehat{U}\) is defined on every integrable irreducible highest weight module of the quantum affine algebra \(U({\widehat {\text{gl}_N}})\). The \(q\)-version of the level-rank duality giving the reciprocal decomposition of the \(q\)-Fock space with respect to mutually commutative actions of \(U'({\widehat {\text{sl}_N}})\) of level \(L\) and \(U'({\widehat {\text{sl}_L}})\) of level \(N\) is described.