On R-matrix formulation of qq-characters

Abstract

We introduce an R-matrix formulation of qq-characters and corresponding Frenkel-Reshetikhin deformed W-algebras. The R-matrix featuring in the construction is of Ding-Iohara-Miki (DIM) algebra, while the type of the qq-character is determined by the network of Fock representations corresponding to a web of 5-branes geometrically engineering a quiver gauge theory. Our formulation gives a unified description of qq-characters of $A_n$ type and their elliptic uplifts.

arXiv comment41 pages, 15 figures