Let gˆ be an untwisted affine Lie algebra or the twisted counterpart thereof (which excludes the affine Lie algebras of type BCˆn=A2n(2)). We present an affine Pieri rule for a basis of periodic Macdonald spherical functions associated with gˆ. In type Aˆn−1=An−1(1) the formula in question reproduces an affine Pieri rule for cylindric Hall-Littlewood polynomials due to Korff, which at t=0 specializes in turn to a well-known Pieri formula in the fusion ring of genus zero slˆ(n)c-Wess-Zumino-Witten conformal field theories.@en

We construct the basic representation of the double affine Hecke algebra at critical level q = 1 associated to an irreducible reduced affine root system R with a reduced gradient root system. For R of untwisted type such a representation was studied by Oblomkov [A. Oblomkov, Double affine Hecke algebras and Calogero-Moser spaces, Represent. Theory 8 (2004) 243-266] and further detailed by Gehles [K. E. Gehles, Properties of Cherednik algebras and graded Hecke algebras, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow (2006)] in the presence of minuscule weights.@en