Boundary quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations and fusion (Q5962769)

The boundary q-Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov (qKZ) equations have their origins in the representation theory through works of Cherednik and in quantum field theory and in statistical mechanics with special integrable boundary conditions. The main result of this paper is the construction of q-integral solutions to the boundary qKZ equations in the tensor space which are given by compatible system of difference equations. The main result given in (Theorem 6) generalizes the main result of \textit{N. Reshetikhin} et al. [Commun. Math. Phys. 336, No. 2, 953--986 (2015; Zbl 1312.81122)] from two-dimensional representations of quantum \(\mathfrak{sl}_2\) to arbitary Verma modules. The proof of the main result is difficult and long but I think that it is an interesting technik in quantum algebra and representation theory moreover it is new for q-equations in integrable quantum field theory. The paper is organized as follows in Sections 2 and 3 an overview solutions to the quantum Yang-Baxter equation corresponding to quantum \(\mathfrak{sl}_2\) and their fusion are given. Reflection equations and the fusion of \(K\)-operators are discussed in Section 4. The boundary monodromy matrices defined in terms of these \(R\)- and \(K\)-operators are introduced in Section 5, as are the off-shell Bethe vectors. In Section 6, the authors state and discuss the main theorem on the Jackson integral solutions of the boundary qKZ equtions with continuous spins; it is given in Section 7. In Section 8, they show that the boundary qKZ equations and associated Jackson integral solutions of the boundary qKZ equations can be obtained from the special case when all l equal half by fusion, where l is the hightest weight of the Verma module over quantum \(\mathfrak{sl}_2\).