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We provide a proposal, motivated by Separation of Variables and gauge theory arguments, for constructing exact solutions to the quantum Baxter equation associated to the N-particle relativistic Toda chain and test our proposal against numerical results. Quantum Mechanical non-perturbative corrections, essential in order to obtain a sensible solution, are taken into account in our gauge theory approach by considering codimension two defects on curved backgrounds (squashed S 5 and degenerate limits) rather than flat space; this setting also naturally incorporates exact quantization conditions and energy spectrum of the relativistic Toda chain as well as its modular dual structure.
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Sciarappa, A. Exact relativistic Toda chain eigenfunctions from Separation of Variables and gauge theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 116 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2017)116
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