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Relationship between R-matrix and Casimir element?
Given a simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, is there any relation between its Casimir element and the $R$-matrix of the related Yangian $Y(\mathfrak{g})$?
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Classification of connected finite affine type A crystals
In the survey https://www.aimath.org/WWN/kostka/crysdumb.pdf the following statement is stated as a Conjecture 4.5 (due to Kashiwara): "Every connected affine crystal graph is isomorphic to a ...
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Lusztig's completion for universal enveloping algebra
In Arkhipov, Bezrukavnikov and Ginzburg's paper "Quantum Groups, the loop Grassmannian and the Springer resolution", they mentioned that Lusztig introduced a certain completion for universal ...
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Why does Kashiwara define $U_q(\mathfrak{g})$ over $\mathbb{Q}(q)$ rather than $\mathbb{C}(q)$?
When defining crystal bases, why do we typically view $U_q(\mathfrak{g})$ as an algebra over $\mathbb{Q}(q)$ rather than $\mathbb{C}(q)$? In Kashiwara's original paper introducing crystal bases, he ...
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The Killing form on quantized enveloping algebras and reduction to the classical case
Let $U_q$ be the quantized enveloping algebra associated to a semisimple Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$. It is a result due to Tanisaki (see here; also see Chapter 6 of Jantzen's book Lectures on Quantum ...
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How to understand extremal vector?
Extremal vectors are defined in Kashiwara's paper. The definition is as follows.
Simple reflections in the Weyl group of $\mathfrak{g}$ acts on the crystal basis of integrable $U_q(\mathfrak{g})$-...
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Questions about ``$p$-canonical basis" for $\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}_n}$ module (wedge power of natural representation)
Let $p$ be a prime number. Consider the natural representation of the affine Lie algebra $\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}_p}$, defined as follows.
$$A = \bigoplus_{i=1}^N \mathbb{C}a_i; \qquad \text{nat}_p = A ...
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A question about q-binomials at roots of unity
I have a question about a lemma $9.3.6$ in the book A Guide to Quantum Groups written by Vyjayanthi Chari and Andrew Pressley. This question comes from page 301, "The restricted specialization&...
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Action of Lusztig braid group operators on locally finite part
Let $\mathbf{U}_q(\mathfrak{g})$
be a Drinfel'd-Jimbo quantum group. The quantum group $\mathbf{U}_q(\mathfrak{g})$ acts on itself by the left adjoint action $ad(u)(x)=u_{(1)}u S(u_{(2)})$, where we ...
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Quantum Schubert cell algebra and quantum odd-dimensional euclidean space
De Concini, Kac, Procesi introduced quantum Schubert cell algebra associated to a complex Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ which is denoted by $\mathcal{U}^{w}_{\epsilon}$ where $w$ is an element of Weyl ...
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Category O for (Yangian) toroidal Lie algebras?
Suppose throughout that $g$ is a finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra over $\mathbb{C}$ and let us denote:
$$g_{[2]} := g \otimes_{\mathbb{C}} \mathbb{C}[v^{\pm 1}, t^{\pm 1}]$$
$$g_{[2]}^+ := g \...
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Quantum invariant: The canonical $2$-tensor
In Chapter XVI Kassel introduces a proper definition of a quantum universal enveloping algebra of a Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$. (See definition XVI.5.1). Notice that a quantum enveloping algebra has a ...
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Comodules of the $B,C$ and $D$ series quantum groups
In Section 11.5 of Klimyk and Schmudgen's book on quantum groups, explicit presentations of the isomorphism classes of comodules of ${\cal O}(GL_q(N))$ are given in terms of its "quantum minors". In ...
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Submodules of $V\otimes V^*$
Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a simple finite-dimensional Lie algebra over $\mathbb{C}$ and let $U_q(\hat{\mathfrak{g}})$ be the corresponding quantum affine algebra (here $q$ is not a root of unity). We know ...
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Low-dimensional classical r-matrices
Let $g= gl_2$. Suppose that $r \in g \otimes g$ satisfies the following properties:
(1) $r_{12} + r_{21} \in g \otimes g$ is $g$-invariant, $r_{12} = r$, $r_{21} = \tau \ r_{12}$.
(2) $[r_{12}, r_{...
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polynomial representation of $sl_{2}(k)$
Let $k$ be an algebraic closed field of characteristic 0. We write
$$X=\left(
\begin{array}{ccc}
0 & 1\\
0 & 0\\
\end{array}
\right),~~
Y=\left(
\begin{array}{ccc}
0 & 0\\
1 & 0\\
\...
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Reference request: the formula $\langle x, [f, g] \rangle = \langle \delta(x), f \otimes g \rangle$
Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a Lie algebra and $\mathfrak{g}^*$ the dual vector space of $\mathfrak{g}$ which is also a Lie algebra with natural brackets. Let $\delta: U(\mathfrak{g}) \to U(\mathfrak{g}) \...
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