On b-Whittaker functions
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On $b$-Whittaker functions
Abstract: The -Whittaker functions are eigenfunctions of the modular -deformed open Toda system introduced by Kharchev, Lebedev, and Semenov-Tian-Shansky. Using the quantum inverse scattering method, the named authors obtained a Mellin-Barnes integral representation for these eigenfunctions. In the present paper, we develop the analytic theory of the -Whittaker functions from the perspective of quantum cluster algebras. We obtain a formula for the modular open Toda system's Baxter operator as a sequence of quantum cluster transformations, and thereby derive a new modular -analog of Givental's integral formula for the undeformed Whittaker function. We also show that the -Whittaker functions are eigenvectors of the Dehn twist operator from quantum higher Teichm"uller theory, and obtain -analogs of various integral identities satisfied by the undeformed Whittaker functions, including the continuous Cauchy-Littlewood identity of Stade and Corwin-O'Connell-Sepp"al"ainen-Zygouras. Using these results, we prove the unitarity of the -Whittaker transform, thereby completing the analytic part of the proof of the conjecture of Frenkel and Ip on tensor products of positive representations of , as well as the main step in the modular functor conjecture of Fock and Goncharov. We conclude by explaining how the theory of -Whittaker functions can be used to derive certain hyperbolic hypergeometric integral evaluations found by Rains.
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