2005-10-28

Alexander Varchenko, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The flag variety structure of solutions to the Bethe ansatz equations

Critical points of master functions associated to a simple Lie algebra come in families called populations. Every population is isomorphic to the flag variety of the Langlands dual Lie algebra. The construction of populations of critical points is based on the reproduction procedure which allows one to construct a family of critical point from a given one.