On the number of populations of critical points of master functions

Evgeny Mukhin, Alexander Varchenko

Published 2013-06-19, updated 2013-07-11Version 3

We consider the master functions associated with one irreducible integrable highest weight representation of a Kac-Moody algebra. We study the generation procedure of new critical points from a given critical point of one of these master functions. We show that all critical points of all these master functions can be generated from the critical point of the master function with no variables. In particular this means that the set of all critical points of all these master functions form a single population of critical points. We formulate a conjecture that the number of populations of critical points of master functions associated with a tensor product of irreducible integrable highest weight representations of a Kac-Moody algebra are labeled by homomorphisms to $\C$ of the Bethe algebra of the Gaudin model associated with this tensor product.