# Where does the canonical basis differ from the KLR basis?

The question implicitly asked in Ben Webster's question is: Does the canonical basis of Uq(n+) agree with the basis coming from categorification via Khovanov-Lauda-Rouqier algebras?

Thanks to Shunsuke Tsuchioka's answer to the very same question, the answer is No.

One can now ask for more, and ask for an explicit example where these two bases disagree. So that's what I am going to do here.

In case someone brings it up, I'm disqualifying Example 3.25 of Khovanov-Lauda I on the grounds that it doesn't count (the algebra isn't quite defined "correctly" in characteristic zero (it doesn't match the geometry), and weird stuff is to be expected outside of finite type for KLR algebras in positive characteristic). I'd prefer to work in finite type please.

Of course Tsuchioka's answer provides us with an upper bound on where to look.

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I'll just note, for the record: I don't know. I have some ideas about how to go about looking, but it's actually not so easy to do the calculations. –  Ben Webster Mar 23 '12 at 1:23

Hi,

In the following, we consider the quantum group of type $G_2=(a_{ij})_{i,j\in I}$ where $I=\{1,2\}$ and $\alpha_2$ is the long root.

We choose a reduced expression for the longest element $w_0$ of the Weyl group $W(G_2)$ as $w_0=s_2s_1s_2s_1s_2s_1$ and thus identify $\mathbb{N}^{6}$ and Kashiwara's crystal $B(\infty)$ via Lusztig's parametrization, \begin{align*} \mathbb{N}^6 \stackrel{\sim}{\longrightarrow} B(\infty)=L(\infty)/q^{-1}L(\infty), (a,b,c,d,e,f)\longmapsto e_2^{(a)}e_{12}^{(b)}e_{11122}^{(c)}e_{112}^{(d)}e_{1112}^{(e)}e_1^{(f)}+{q^{-1}L(\infty)} \end{align*} Here $e_{*}$ are suitable elements defined by Lusztig's braid group symmetry which we don't repeat it here.

For each $b\in B(\infty)$, we denote by $G^{\ast}(b)$ the corresponding dual canonical basis element.

Let $\mathcal{H}_n$ be Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebra of type $G_2$ over $\mathbb{Q}$. You can see that $G^{\ast}(0,0,1,0,0,3)$ corresponds to an irreducible representation of dimension 168 of $\mathcal{H}_8$.

Note that we have the negative occurrence \begin{align*} e_2G^{\ast}(0,0,1,0,0,3) =G^{\ast}(1,0,1,0,0,3) +q^{-3}G^{\ast}(0,3,0,0,0,3) -q^{-3}G^{\ast}(0,2,0,1,0,2) +q^{-6}G^{\ast}(0,0,1,0,1,0). \end{align*}

I checked that \begin{align*} G^{\ast}(1,0,1,0,0,3), G^{\ast}(0,3,0,0,0,3)-G^{\ast}(0,2,0,1,0,2), G^{\ast}(0,2,0,1,0,2), G^{\ast}(0,0,1,0,1,0) \end{align*} correspond to irreducible representations of dimension 168,1176,168,168 of $\mathcal{H}_9$ respectively.

Thus, the irreducible $\mathcal{H}_9$-module $V$ whose character in the quantum Shuffle is given by $G^{\ast}(0,3,0,0,0,3)-G^{\ast}(0,2,0,1,0,2)$ is an example you ask. $V$ is realizable over $\mathbb{Z}$ and its irreducibility is always preserved under the modulo-$p$ reduction for every prime $p\geq 2$.

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Excellent! Very nice. –  Ben Webster Mar 23 '12 at 14:33