Singular Integral Equations. By N.I. Muskhelishvili. Translated fromthe 2nd Russian edition by J.R.M. Radok. Pp. 447. F1. 28.50. 1953. (Noordhoff, Groningen)

Scaling level-spacing distribution functions in the “bulk of the spectrum” in random matrix models ofN×N hermitian matrices and then going to the limitN→∞ leads to the Fredholm determinant of thesine kernel sinπ(x−y)/π(x−y). Similarly a scaling limit at the “edge of the spectrum” leads to theAiry kernel [Ai(x)Ai(y)−Ai′(x)Ai(y)]/(x−y). In this paper we derive analogues for this Airy kernel of the following properties of the sine kernel: the completely integrable system of P.D.E.'s found by Jimbo, Miwa, Mori, and Sato; the expression, in the case of a single interval, of the Fredholm determinant in terms of a Painleve transcendent; the existence of a commuting differential operator; and the fact that this operator can be used in the derivation of asymptotics, for generaln, of the probability that an interval contains preciselyn eigenvalues.

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Level spacing distributions and the Airy kernel

A new class of boundary conditions is described for quantum systems integrable by means of the quantum inverse scattering (R-matrix) method. The method proposed allows the author to treat open quantum chains with appropriate boundary terms in the Hamiltonian. The general considerations are applied to the XXZ and XYZ models, the nonlinear Schrodinger equation and Toda chain.

https://math.berkeley.edu/~reshetik/Sklyanin-boundary.pdf

Boundary conditions for integrable quantum systems

The aim of this paper is to construct new topological invariants of compact oriented 3-manifolds and of framed links in such manifolds. Our invariant of (a link in) a closed oriented 3-manifold is a sequence of complex numbers parametrized by complex roots of 1. For a framed link in S 3 the terms of the sequence are equale to the values of the (suitably parametrized) Jones polynomial of the link in the corresponding roots of 1. In the case of manifolds with boundary our invariant is a (sequence of) finite dimensional complex linear operators. This produces from each root of unity q a 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory

Invariants of 3-manifolds via link polynomials and quantum groups

R J Baxter 1982 London: Academic xii + 486 pp price £43.60 Over the past few years there has been a growing belief that all the twodimensional lattice statistical models will eventually be solved and that it will be Professor Baxter who solves them. Baxter has inherited the mantle of Onsager who started the process by solving exactly the two-dimensional Ising model in 1944.

Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Mechanics

Aq-difference analogue of the universal enveloping algebra U(g) of a simple Lie algebra g is introduced. Its structure and representations are studied in the simplest case g=sl(2). It is then applied to determine the eigenvalues of the trigonometric solution of the Yang-Baxter equation related to sl(2) in an arbitrary finite-dimensional irreducible representation.

A q -difference analogue of U(g) and the Yang-Baxter equation

We study for g=g[(N+1) the structure and representations of the algebra Ŭ(g), a q-analogue of the universal enveloping algebra U(g). Applying the result, we construct trigonometric solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation associated with higher representations of g.

A q-analogue of U(g[(N+1)), Hecke algebra, and the Yang-Baxter equation

Introduction §1. Fock Representation of gf(°°) §2. T Functions and the KP Hierarchy §3. Reduction to A[\" §4. Fermions with 2 Components §5. Algebras B^ and Co §6. Spin Representation of J&TO §7. Algebras D^ and £C §8. Reduction to Kac-Moody Lie Algebras §9. Time Evolutions with Singularities Other than k = 00 —The 2 Dimensional Toda Lattice— §10. Difference Equations —The Principal Chiral Field— Appendix 1. Bilinear Equations for the (Modified) KP Hierarchies Appendix 2. Bilinear Equations for the 2 Component Reduced KP Hierarchy Appendix 3. Bilinear Equations Related to the Spin Representations of Bca Appendix 4. Bilinear Equations Related to the Spin Representations of D^

https://www.ems-ph.org/journals/show_pdf.php?issn=0034-5318&vol=19&iss=3&rank=4

Michio Jimbo

Papers

A q -difference analogue of U(g) and the Yang-Baxter equation

A q-analogue of U(g[(N+1)), Hecke algebra, and the Yang-Baxter equation

Solitons and Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras

Monodromy perserving deformation of linear ordinary differential equations with rational coefficients. II

Monodromy preserving deformation of linear ordinary differential equations with rational coefficients. III