Parabolic Whittaker functions and topological field theories. I.

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2011.V5.N1.A4zbMATH Open1252.81115arXiv1002.2622OpenAlexW2963202875MaRDI QIDQ412794FDOQ412794

Authors: Anton Gerasimov, Sergey Oblezin, Dimitri Lebedev 

Publication date: 4 May 2012

Published in: Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: First, we define a generalization of the standard quantum Toda chain inspired by a construction of quantum cohomology of partial flags spaces GL(ell+1)/P, P a parabolic subgroup. Common eigenfunctions of the parabolic quantum Toda chains are generalized Whittaker functions given by matrix elements of infinite-dimensional representations of gl(ell+1). For maximal parabolic subgroups (i.e. for P such that GL(ell+1)/P=mathbb{P}^{ell}) we construct two different representations of the corresponding parabolic Whittaker functions as correlation functions in topological quantum field theories on a two-dimensional disk. In one case the parabolic Whittaker function is given by a correlation function in a type A equivariant topological sigma model with the target space mathbb{P}^{ell}. In the other case the same Whittaker function appears as a correlation function in a type B equivariant topological Landau-Ginzburg model related with the type A model by mirror symmetry. This note is a continuation of our project of establishing a relation between two-dimensional topological field theories (and more generally topological string theories) and Archimedean (infty-adic) geometry. From this perspective the existence of two, mirror dual, topological field theory representations of the parabolic Whittaker functions provide a quantum field theory realization of the local Archimedean Langlands duality for Whittaker functions. The established relation between the Archimedean Langlands duality and mirror symmetry in two-dimensional topological quantum field theories should be considered as a main result of this note.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2622

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zbMATH Keywords

mirror symmetryquantum integrable systemsTQFTGromov-Witten invariantsToda chainWhittaker functionsArchimedean Langlands duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Mirror symmetry (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J33) Geometric Langlands program: representation-theoretic aspects (22E57) Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1) (33C15) Other analytic theory (analogues of beta and gamma functions, (p)-adic integration, etc.) (11S80)

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