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Valentin Buciumas

Pohang University of Science and Technology · Mathematics

About the Lab

Professor Valentin Buciumas leads a research lab focused on the intersection of representation theory, quantum groups, and statistical mechanics. His work centers on constructing solvable lattice models—particularly colored five-vertex models—that provide combinatorial interpretations for important mathematical objects such as Lascoux polynomials, atoms, and Whittaker functions. By linking these models to Yang-Baxter equations and quantum affine superalgebras, his group establishes deep connections between number theory, algebraic combinatorics, and mathematical physics. The lab also explores Iwahori and parahoric Whittaker functions through recursive structures and solvability, revealing analogies with integrable systems and crystal bases.

solvable lattice modelsWhittaker functionsquantum groupsLascoux polynomialsYang-Baxter equation

Research Overview

Papers
28
Total Citations
173
Papers (5y)
10
Primary Field
Mathematics

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
10total
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Citations per year (5y)
9total
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|28 citations·2019
A Yang–Baxter equation for metaplectic ice
Ben Brubaker, Valentin Buciumas, Daniel Bump, Nathan Gray
SJR Q1Communications in Number Theory and Physics

We will give new applications of quantum groups to the study of spherical Whittaker functions on the metaplectic n-fold cover of GL(r, F), where F is a nonarchimedean local field. Earlier Brubaker, Bump, Friedberg, Chinta and Gunnells had shown that these Whittaker functions can be identified with the partition functions of statistical mechanical systems. They postulated that a Yang-Baxter equation underlies the properties of these Whittaker functions. We confirm this, and identify the correspon

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
2
Article|28 citations·2020
Colored five-vertex models and Lascoux polynomials and atoms
Valentin Buciumas, Travis Scrimshaw, Katherine Weber
Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland)

We construct an integrable colored five-vertex model whose partition function is a Lascoux atom based on the five-vertex model of Motegi and Sakai and the colored five-vertex model of Brubaker, the first author, Bump and Gustafsson. We then modify this model in two different ways to construct a Lascoux polynomial, yielding the first proven combinatorial interpretation of a Lascoux polynomial and atom. Using this, we prove a conjectured combinatorial interpretation in terms of set-valued tableaux

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
3
Article|23 citations·2017
Hecke modules from metaplectic ice
Ben Brubaker, Valentin Buciumas, Daniel Bump, Solomon Friedberg
SJR Q1Selecta Mathematica
Geometry and TopologyMathematics
4
Preprint|19 citations·2016
A Yang-Baxter equation for metaplectic ice
Ben Brubaker, Valentin Buciumas, Daniel Bump
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

We will give new applications of quantum groups to the study of spherical Whittaker functions on the metaplectic $n$-fold cover of $GL(r,F)$, where $F$ is a nonarchimedean local field. Earlier Brubaker, Bump, Friedberg, Chinta and Gunnells had shown that these Whittaker functions can be identified with the partition functions of statistical mechanical systems. They postulated that a Yang-Baxter equation underlies the properties of these Whittaker functions. We confirm this, and identify the corr

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
5
Article|18 citations·2020
Colored five-vertex models and Demazure atoms
Ben Brubaker, Valentin Buciumas, Daniel Bump, Henrik P. A. Gustafsson
SJR Q1Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series AOA
Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsMathematics
6
Preprint|15 citations·2019
Colored Vertex Models and Iwahori Whittaker Functions
Ben Brubaker, Valentin Buciumas, Daniel Bump, Henrik P. A. Gustafsson
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

We give a recursive method for computing all values of a basis of Whittaker functions for unramified principal series invariant under an Iwahori or parahoric subgroup of a split reductive group $G$ over a nonarchimedean local field $F$. Structures in the proof have surprising analogies to features of certain solvable lattice models. In the case $G=\mathrm{GL}_r$ we show that there exist solvable lattice models whose partition functions give precisely all of these values. Here `solvable' means th

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
7
Article|14 citations·2020
Vertex Operators, Solvable Lattice Models and Metaplectic Whittaker Functions
Ben Brubaker, Valentin Buciumas, Daniel Bump, Henrik P. A. Gustafsson
SJR Q1Communications in Mathematical Physics
Geometry and TopologyMathematics
8
Preprint|7 citations·2017
Duality for metaplectic ice
Ben Brubaker, Valentin Buciumas, Daniel Bump, Nathan Gray
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

We interpret values of spherical Whittaker functions on metaplectic covers of the general linear group over a nonarchimedean local field as partition functions of two different solvable lattice models. We prove the equality of these two partition functions by showing the commutativity of transfer matrices associated to different models via the Yang-Baxter equation.

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
9
Article|4 citations·2024
Colored vertex models and Iwahori Whittaker functions
Ben Brubaker, Valentin Buciumas, Daniel Bump, Henrik P. A. Gustafsson
SJR Q1Selecta MathematicaOA

Abstract We give a recursive method for computing all values of a basis of Whittaker functions for unramified principal series invariant under an Iwahori or parahoric subgroup of a split reductive group G over a nonarchimedean local field F . Structures in the proof have surprising analogies to features of certain solvable lattice models. In the case $$G=\textrm{GL}_r$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>G</mml:mi> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:msub> <mml:mtex

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
10
Preprint|4 citations·2019
Colored five-vertex models and Demazure atoms
Ben Brubaker, Valentin Buciumas, Daniel Bump, Henrik P. A. Gustafsson
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Type A Demazure atoms are pieces of Schur functions, or sets of tableaux whose weights sum to such functions. Inspired by colored vertex models of Borodin and Wheeler, we will construct solvable lattice models whose partition functions are Demazure atoms; the proof of this makes use of a Yang-Baxter equation for a colored five-vertex model. As a biproduct, we construct Demazure atoms on Kashiwara's $\mathcal{B}_\infty$ crystal and give new algorithms for computing Lascoux-Schützenberger keys.

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
11
Preprint|3 citations·2020
Metaplectic Iwahori Whittaker functions and supersymmetric lattice models
Ben Brubaker, Valentin Buciumas, Daniel Bump, Henrik P. A. Gustafsson
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

In this paper we compute new values of Iwahori Whittaker functions on $n$-fold metaplectic covers $\widetilde{G}$ of $\mathbf{G}(F)$ with $\mathbf{G}$ a split reductive group over a non-archimedean local field $F$. For every Iwahori Whittaker function $ϕ$, and for every $g\in\widetilde{G}$, we evaluate $ϕ(g)$ by recurrence relations over the Weyl group using novel "vector Demazure-Whittaker operators." The general formula and strategy of proof are inspired by ideas appearing in the theory of int

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
12
Article|2 citations·2018
Quantum polynomial functors from e-Hecke pairs
Valentin Buciumas, Hankyung Ko
SJR Q1Mathematische ZeitschriftOA

We define a new category of quantum polynomial functors extending the quantum polynomials introduced by Hong and Yacobi. We show that our category has many properties of the category of Hong and Yacobi and is the natural setting in which one can define composition of quantum polynomial functors. Throughout the paper we highlight several key differences between the theory of classical and quantum polynomial functors.

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
13
Preprint|2 citations·2018
Vertex operators, solvable lattice models and metaplectic Whittaker functions
Ben Brubaker, Valentin Buciumas, Daniel Bump, Henrik P. A. Gustafsson
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

We show that spherical Whittaker functions on an $n$-fold cover of the general linear group arise naturally from the quantum Fock space representation of $U_q(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}(n))$ introduced by Kashiwara, Miwa and Stern (KMS). We arrive at this connection by reconsidering solvable lattice models known as `metaplectic ice' whose partition functions are metaplectic Whittaker functions. First, we show that a certain Hecke action on metaplectic Whittaker coinvariants agrees (up to twisting)

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
14
Preprint|1 citations·2021
Quasi-solvable lattice models for Sp_2n and SO_2n+1 Demazure atoms and characters
Valentin Buciumas, Travis Scrimshaw
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

We construct colored lattice models whose partition functions represent symplectic and odd orthogonal Demazure characters and atoms. We show that our lattice models are not solvable, but we are able to show the existence of sufficiently many solutions of the Yang--Baxter equation that allows us to compute functional equations for the corresponding partition functions. From these functional equations, we determine that the partition function of our models are the Demazure atoms and characters for

Geometry and TopologyMathematics
15
Article|1 citations·2022
Quasi-solvable lattice models for and Demazure atoms and characters
Valentin Buciumas, Travis Scrimshaw
SJR Q1Forum of Mathematics SigmaOA

Abstract We construct coloured lattice models whose partition functions represent symplectic and odd orthogonal Demazure characters and atoms. We show that our lattice models are not solvable, but we are able to show the existence of sufficiently many solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation that allow us to compute functional equations for the corresponding partition functions. From these functional equations, we determine that the partition function of our models are the Demazure atoms and charac

Geometry and TopologyMathematics

Research Areas

Geometry and TopologyMathematical PhysicsDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

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