Degenerate double affine Hecke algebra and conformal field theory (Q4249102)

The paper under review is devoted to the investigation of representations of the degenerate double affine Hecke algebra \(\mathcal H\) from the point of view of conformal field theory associated to the affine Lie algebra \(\widehat{sl}_m(\mathbb C)\). In \(\S 1\) the authors introduce basic notions about the degenerate double affine Hecke algebra \(\mathcal H\). In particular, the intertwiners of weight spaces of \(\mathcal H\) play essential roles in the analysis of \(\mathcal H\)-modules. Further, in \(\S 2\) the parabolic induced modules are introduced and their structure for generic values of parameter is investigated. The following results are obtained: (1) The irreducibility of the standard modules is shown and their bases are described by intertwining operators. (2) Decompositions of the standard modules as \(\overline {\mathcal H}\)-modules are obtained. (3) The symmetric part of the standard modules is decomposed onto weight spaces with respect to the action of the center of \(\overline {\mathcal H}\) and their bases are constructed again by using the intertwiners. Then after some preliminaries on affine Hecke algebras, for \(g\)-modules \(A\) and \(B\) the authors give an explicit construction of \(\mathcal H\)-modules as a quotient space \(\mathcal F(A,B)\) of a tensor product of \(\widehat{sl}_m(\mathbb C)\)-modules. By combining the KZ-connection with the Cherednik-Dunkl operator, they define an action of \(\mathcal H\) on \(\mathcal F(A,B)\). It is shown that these \(\mathcal H\)-modules arising from Verma modules \(\widehat{sl}_m(\mathbb C)\) correspond to a parabolic induced metric of \(\mathcal H\). In conclusion, they discuss the structure of the representations of the affine Hecke algebra arising from level \(l\) integral representations of \(\widehat{sl}_m(\mathbb C)\). Some conjectures are stated. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0905.00081].