Parabolic Whittaker Functions and Topological Field Theories I

Details Parabolic Whittaker Functions and Topological Field Theories I Parabolic Whittaker Functions and Topological Field Theories I

2010-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/1002.2622v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Section 1 is extended and Appendices are added, 23 pages

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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.

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