A mirror symmetric solution to the quantum Toda lattice (Q661314)

Let \(G\) be a simple, simply connected complex algebraic group of rank \(n\) with split real form and fixed Borel subgroup \(B=B_-\) and opposite Borel \(B_+\), with corresponding unipotent radicals \(U_-\) and \(U_+\), and maximal torus \(T=B_- \cap B_+\). Let \(W=N(T)/T\) be the Weyl group. Let \(\mathfrak g\) be the Lie algebra of \(G\), \(\mathfrak u_\pm\) the Lie algebras of \(U_\pm\), and \(\mathfrak h\) the Lie algebra of \(T\). Choose Lie algebra homomorphisms \(\chi_\pm: \mathfrak u_\pm \to \mathbb C\). Let \(\mathcal O\) be an open subset of \(\mathfrak h\). Smooth functions on \(\mathcal O\) extend, via functional equations involving \(\chi_\pm\), to \(U_+TU_-\times_T\mathfrak h\);, these the author terms Whittaker functions. Constructing solutions to the quantum Toda lattice is equivalent to constructing Whittaker functions annihilated by (specific) generators of the center of the universal enveloping algebra of \(\mathfrak g\), and this is what the author does in this paper. An important tool is a constructed mirror symmetry for the full flag variety \(G^\vee/B^\vee\) consisting of a variety \(Z\) with a map \(Z \to \mathfrak h\) whose fibers are intersections of opposite big cells, a functiona \(\mathcal F\) on \(Z\) called the superpotential, and form \(\omega_Z\) on \(Z\) derived in part from the long element of \(W\).