A quantum isomonodromy equation and its application to N=2 SU(N) gauge theories

We give an explicit differential equation which is expected to determine the instanton partition function in the presence of the full surface operator in N=2 SU(N) gauge theory. The differential equation arises as a quantization of a certain Hamiltonian system of isomonodromy type discovered by Fuji, Suzuki and Tsuda.Comment: 15 pages, v2: typos corrected and references added, v3: discussion, appendix and references adde

Spaces of quasi-exponentials and representations of gl_N

We consider the action of the Bethe algebra B_K on (\otimes_{s=1}^k L_{\lambda^{(s)}})_\lambda, the weight subspace of weight $\lambda$ of the tensor product of k polynomial irreducible gl_N-modules with highest weights \lambda^{(1)},...,\lambda^{(k)}, respectively. The Bethe algebra depends on N complex numbers K=(K_1,...,K_N). Under the assumption that K_1,...,K_N are distinct, we prove that the image of B_K in the endomorphisms of (\otimes_{s=1}^k L_{\lambda^{(s)}})_\lambda is isomorphic to the algebra of functions on the intersection of k suitable Schubert cycles in the Grassmannian of N-dimensional spaces of quasi-exponentials with exponents K. We also prove that the B_K-module (\otimes_{s=1}^k L_{\lambda^{(s)}})_\lambda is isomorphic to the coregular representation of that algebra of functions. We present a Bethe ansatz construction identifying the eigenvectors of the Bethe algebra with points of that intersection of Schubert cycles.Comment: Latex, 29 page