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Cactus group and monodromy of Bethe vectors
Cactus group is the fundamental group of the real locus of the
Deligne-Mumford moduli space of stable rational curves. This group appears
naturally as an analog of the braid group in coboundary monoidal categories. We
define an action of the cactus group on the set of Bethe vectors of the Gaudin
magnet chain corresponding to arbitrary semisimple Lie algebra .
Cactus group appears in our construction as a subgroup in the Galois group of
Bethe Ansatz equations. Following the idea of Pavel Etingof, we conjecture that
this action is isomorphic to the action of the cactus group on the tensor
product of crystals coming from the general coboundary category formalism. We
prove this conjecture in the case (in
fact, for this case the conjecture almost immediately follows from the results
of Varchenko on asymptotic solutions of the KZ equation and crystal bases). We
also present some conjectures generalizing this result to Bethe vectors of
shift of argument subalgebras and relating the cactus group with the
Berenstein-Kirillov group of piecewise-linear symmetries of the Gelfand-Tsetlin
polytope.Comment: 23 pages, sections 2 and 3 revise