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Q-systems as cluster algebras

Rinat Kedem

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Q-systems first appeared in the analysis of the Bethe equations for the XXX model and generalized Heisenberg spin chains (Kirillov and Reshetikhin 1987 Zap. Nauchn. Sem. Leningr. Otd. Mat. Inst. Steklov. 160 211–21, 301). Such systems are known to exist for any simple Lie algebra and many other Kac–Moody algebras. We formulate the Q-system associated with any simple, simply-laced Lie algebras {\mathfrak{g}} in the language of cluster algebras (Fomin and Zelevinsky 2002 J. Am. Math. Soc. 15 497–529), and discuss the relation of the polynomiality property of the solutions of the Q-system in the initial variables, which follows from the representation–theoretical interpretation, to the Laurent phenomenon in cluster algebras (Fomin and Zelevinsky 2002 Adv. Appl. Math. 28 119–44).


PACS

02.10.Ud Linear algebra

75.10.Jm Quantized spin models

MSC

81R10 Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, W-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (See also 17B65, 17B67, 22E65, 22E67, 22E70)

17B67 Kac-Moody (super)algebras (structure and representation theory)

17B20 Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (roots)

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Dates

Issue 19 (16 May 2008)

Received 6 December 2007, in final form 6 February 2008

Published 29 April 2008



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