Quantum inverse scattering method for the \(q\)-boson model and symmetric functions (Q883627)

The \(q\)-boson model describes a strongly correlated exactly solvable one-dimensional boson system on a finite one-dimensional lattice.The corresponding \(q\)-boson (or \(q\)-oscillator) algebra is closely related to the quantum algebra \(sl_q(2)\). The aim of this paper is to show that the quantum inverse scattering method for the \(q\)-boson model has a nice and useful interpretation in terms of the algebra of symmetric functions.In the case \(q=0\) the creation operator coincides with the operator of the multiplication by the generating function of complete homogeneous symmetric functions, and the wave functions are expressed via the Schur functions \(s_{\lambda}(x)\). The general case of the \(q\)-boson model is related in a similar way to the Hall-Littlewood symmetric functions \(P_{\lambda}(x;q^2).\)