Generalized Weyl modules and nonsymmetric q-Whittaker functions

We introduce generalized global Weyl modules and relate their graded characters to nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials and nonsymmetric q-Whittaker functions. In particular, we show that the series part of the nonsymmetric q-Whittaker function is a generating function for the graded characters of generalized global Weyl modules.