Quantum superintegrable spin systems on graph connections

Abstract

In this paper we construct certain quantum spin systems on moduli spaces of $G$-connections on a connected oriented finite graph, with $G$ a simply connected compact Lie group. We construct joint eigenfunctions of the commuting quantum Hamiltonians in terms of local invariant tensors. We determine sufficient conditions ensuring superintegrability of the quantum spin system using irreducibility criteria for Harish-Chandra modules due to Harish-Chandra and Lepowsky & McCollum. The resulting class of quantum superintegrable spin systems includes the quantum periodic and open spin Calogero–Moser spin chains as special cases. In the periodic case the description of the joint eigenfunctions in terms of local invariant tensors are multipoint generalized trace functions, in the open case multipoint spherical functions on compact symmetric spaces.