Elliptic R-matrices and Feigin and Odesskii's elliptic algebras

Abstract: The algebras $Q_{n,k}(E,\tau)$ introduced by Feigin and Odesskii as generalizations of the 4-dimensional Sklyanin algebras form a family of quadratic algebras parametrized by coprime integers $n>k\ge 1$, a complex elliptic curve $E$, and a point $\tau\in E$. The main result in this paper is that $Q_{n,k}(E,\tau)$ has the same Hilbert series as the polynomial ring on $n$ variables when $\tau$ is not a torsion point. We also show that $Q_{n,k}(E,\tau)$ is a Koszul algebra, hence of global dimension $n$ when $\tau$ is not a torsion point, and, for all but countably many $\tau$, it is Artin-Schelter regular. The proofs use the fact that the space of quadratic relations defining $Q_{n,k}(E,\tau)$ is the image of an operator $R_{\tau}(\tau)$ that belongs to a family of operators $R_{\tau}(z):\mathbb{C}^n\otimes\mathbb{C}^n\to\mathbb{C}^n\otimes\mathbb{C}^n$, $z\in\mathbb{C}$, that (we will show) satisfy the quantum Yang-Baxter equation with spectral parameter.