Tetrahedron Equation, Weyl Group, and Quantum Dilogarithm

Abstract

We derive a family of solutions to the tetrahedron equation using the RTT presentation of a two parametric quantized algebra of regular functions on an upper triangular subgroup of GL(n). The key ingredients of the construction are the longest element of the Weyl group, the quantum dilogarithm function, and central elements of the quantized division algebra of rational functions on the subgroup in question.