Conformal blocks, \(q\)-combinatorics, and quantum group symmetry (Q2327724)

The article contains two interesting results. It establishes relations between conformal block functions and partition functions of multiple Schramm-Loewner evolution random curves (Theorem A of Section 4.2). The analysis uses the fact that the entries of weighted incidence matrices with weights of Dick tiles (\textbf{Proposition 2} of the paper [\textit{A. Karrila} et al., ``Boundary correlations in planar LERW and UST'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1702.03261}]) are of similar form as conformal block functions, formula (37) on page 461 of the paper: The conformal block functions that contribute to the actual vacuum expected value of \(n\) fields must futhermore have \(\sigma_0=0\) and \(\sigma_n=0\), so they are in fact indexed by Dick paths, and in particular, \(n\) must be even (Subsection 3.3.3, page 461). A further comparison uses the conditions of Subsection 3.4: 1) PDE; 2) Möbius covariance and 3) recursive asymptotic properties. The first main result of the paper is presented in \textbf{Theorem A} of Section 4.2. It states that the conformal block functions are uniquely determined by the properties 1), 2) and 3). The second result is the proposed construction of conformal block functions by quantum group method, using representations of \(U_q(sl_2)\). The method was developed in the authors' previous paper, [``Conformally covariant boundary correlation functions with a quantum group'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1408.1384}]. This result is formulated in \textbf{Propositions 5} and \textbf{6} and in \textbf{Theorem B} of Section 5.2.