Negative energy antiferromagnetic instantons forming Cooper-pairing "glue" and "hidden order" in high-Tc cuprates

An emergence of magnetic boson of instantonic nature, that provides a Cooper-'pairing glue', is considered in the repulsive 'nested' Hubbard model of superconducting cuprates. It is demonstrated, that antiferromagnetic instantons of a spin density wave type may have negative energy due to coupling with Cooper pair condensate. A set of Eliashberg-like equations is derived and solved self-consistently, proving the above suggestion. An instantonic propagator plays the role of Green function of pairing 'glue' boson. Simultaneously, the instantons defy condensation of the mean-field SDW order. We had previously demonstrated in analytical form \cite{2,3,4} that periodic chain of instanton-anti-instanton pairs along the axis of Matsubara time has zero scattering cross section for weakly perturbing external probes, like neutrons, etc., thus representing a 'hidden order'. Hence, the two competing orders, superconducting and antiferromagnetic, may coexist (below some Tc) in the form of mean-field superconducting order, coupled to 'hidden' antiferromagnetic one. This new picture is discussed in relation with the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity

Path description of type B q-characters

We give a set of sufficient conditions for a Laurent polynomial to be the q-character of a finite-dimensional irreducible representation of a quantum affine group. We use this result to obtain an explicit path description of q-characters for a class of modules in type B. In particular, this proves a conjecture of Kuniba-Ohta-Suzuki.Comment: 32 pages, late

Affinization of category O for quantum groups

Let g be a simple Lie algebra. We consider the category ˆO of those modules over the affine quantum group Uq(bg) whose Uq(g)-weights have finite multiplicity and lie in a finite union of cones generated by negative roots. We show that many properties of the category of the finite-dimensional representations naturally extend to the category ˆO . In particular, we develop the theory of q-characters and define the minimal affinizations of parabolic Verma modules. In types ABCFG we classify these minimal affinizations and conjecture a Weyl denominator type formula for their characters.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio