Quantum zonal spherical functions and Macdonald polynomials

A unified theory of quantum symmetric pairs is applied to q-special functions. Previous work characterized certain left coideal subalgebras in the quantized enveloping algebra and established an appropriate framework for quantum zonal spherical functions. Here a distinguished family of such functions, invariant under the Weyl group associated to the restricted roots, is shown to be a family of Macdonald polynomials, as conjectured by Koornwinder and Macdonald. Our results place earlier work for Lie algebras of classical type in a general context and extend to the exceptional cases.     

Realization of PBW-deformations of type An quantum groups via multiple Ore extensions

The notion of multiple Ore extension is introduced as a natural generalization of Ore extensions and double Ore extensions. For a PBW-deformation ${\mathfrak{B}}_q(\mathfrak{sl}(n+1,\mathbb{C}))$ of type ${\mathbb{A}}_n$ quantum group, we explicitly obtain the commutation relations of its root vectors, then show that it can be realized via a series of multiple Ore extensions, which we call a ladder Ore extension of type $(1,2,?,n)$. Moreover, we analyze the quantum algebras ${\mathfrak{B}}_q(\mathfrak{g})$ with $\mathfrak{g}$ of type ${\mathbb{D}}_4$, ${\mathbb{B}}_2$ and ${\mathbb{G}}_2$ and give some examples and counterexamples that can be realized by a ladder Ore extension.     

A Littelmann path model for crystals of generalized Kac-Moody algebras

A Littelmann path model is constructed for crystals pertaining to a not necessarily symmetrizable Borcherds-Cartan matrix. Here one must overcome several combinatorial problems coming from the imaginary simple roots. The main results are an isomorphism theorem and a character formula of Borcherds-Kac-Weyl type for the crystals. In the symmetrizable case, the isomorphism theorem implies that the crystals constructed by this path model coincide with those of Jeong, Kang, Kashiwara and Shin obtained by taking q→0 limit in the quantized enveloping algebra.     

The Hopf algebra Rep U_{q} \widehat{\frak g \frak l}_\infty

We define the Hopf algebra structure on the Grothendieck group of finite-dimensional polynomial representations of in the limitN→∞. The resulting Hopf algebra Rep is a tensor product of its Hopf subalgebras Rep_a ,a ∈ ℂ^×/q^2ℤ. Whenq is generic (resp.,q ² is a primitive root of unity of orderl), we construct an isomorphism between the Hopf algebra Rep _a and the algebra of regular functions on the prounipotent proalgebraic group (resp., ). Whenq is a root of unity, this isomorphism identifies the Hopf subalgebra of Rep _a spanned by the modules obtained by pullback with respect to the Frobenius homomorphism with the algebra generated by the coefficients of the determinant of an element of considered as anl×l matrix over the Taylor series. This gives us an explicit formula for the Frobenius pullbacks of the fundamental representations. In addition, we construct a natural action of the Hall algebra associated to the infinite linear quiver (resp., the cyclic quiver withl vertices) on Rep _a and describe the span of tensor products of evaluation representations taken at fixed points as a module over this Hall algebra.     

Differential conformal superalgebras and their forms

We introduce the formalism of differential conformal superalgebras, which we show leads to the “correct” automorphism group functor and accompanying descent theory in the conformal setting. As an application, we classify forms of N=2 and N=4 conformal superalgebras by means of Galois cohomology.     

Centers of generalized quantum groups

This paper treats the generalized quantum group $U=U(\chi ,\pi )$ with a bi-homomorphism χ for which the corresponding generalized root system is a finite set. We establish a Harish-Chandra type theorem describing the (skew) centers of U.     

Endomorphism algebras and q-traces

For a braided vector space (V,σ) with braiding σ of Hecke type, we introduce three associative algebra structures on the space of graded endomorphisms of the quantum symmetric algebra S_σ(V). We use the second product to construct a new trace. This trace is an algebra morphism with respect to the third product. In particular, when V is the fundamental representation of U_qsl_N+1 and σ is the action of the R-matrix, this trace is a scalar multiple of the quantum trace of type A.     

Yangians: Their representations and characters

The finite-dimensional irreducible representations of the Yangian of sl₂ are parametrized by their highest weights, which are monic polynomials in one variable. In this paper, we give a formula for the character of such a representation which depends only on its highest weight, and is an analogue of the classical Weyl character formula.     

Braided bosonization and inhomogeneous quantum groups

We consider quasitriangular Hopf algebras in braided tensor categories introduced by Majid. It is known that a quasitriangular Hopf algebra H in a braided monoidal category C induces a braiding in a full monoidal subcategory of the category of H-modules in C. Within this subcategory, a braided version of the bosonization theorem with respect to the category C will be proved. An example of braided monoidal categories with quasitriangular structure deviating from the ordinary case of symmetric tensor categories of vector spaces is provided by certain braided supersymmetric tensor categories. Braided inhomogeneous quantum groups like the dilaton free q-Poincaré group are explicit applications.Supported in part by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through a research fellowship.     

Higher Level Affine Crystals and Young Walls

Using combinatorics of Young walls, we give a new realization of arbitrary level irreducible highest weight crystals for quantum affine algebras of type , , , , , and . The irreducible highest weight crystals are realized as the affine crystals consisting of reduced proper Young walls. The notion of slices and splitting of blocks plays a crucial role in the construction of crystals.Presented by Peter Littelman.     

The BLM realization for the integral form of Uv(glm|n)

In this paper, we embed the integral form of the quantum supergroup U_v(gl_(m|n)) to the product of a family of integral quantum Schur super algebras. We show that the image of the embedding is a free Z[v, v~(-1)]-module by finding the basis explicitly and calculating the fundamental multiplication formulas of these bases. Unlike the non-super case, the fundamental multiplication formula, which is the key step, is more complicated since we have to deal with the case of multiplying the odd root vectors. As a consequence, via the base change, we realize the quantum supergroup at roots of unity as a subalgebra of the product of quantum Schur superalgebras. Thus, we find a new basis of quantum supergroups at odd roots of unity which comes from quantum Schur superalgebras.     

Twisted Whittaker model and factorizable sheaves

Let G be a reductive group. The geometric Satake equivalence realized the category of representations of the Langlands dual group Ğ in terms of spherical perverse sheaves (or D-modules) on the affine Grassmannian Gr_G = G((t))/G[[t]] of the original group G. In the present paper we perform a first step in realizing the category of representations of the quantum group corresponding to Ğ in terms of the geometry of Gr_G. The idea of the construction belongs to Jacob Lurie.     

Generalized tilting functors and Ringel-Hall algebras

It is known from [M. Auslander, M.I. Platzeck, I. Reiten, Coxeter functors without diagrams, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 250 (1979) 1-46] and [C.M. Ringel, PBW-basis of quantum groups, J. Reine Angew. Math. 470 (1996) 51-85] that the Bernstein-Gelfand-Ponomarev reflection functors are special cases of tilting functors and these reflection functors induce isomorphisms between certain subalgebras of Ringel-Hall algebras. In [A. Wufu, Tilting functors and Ringel-Hall algebras, Comm. Algebra 33 (1) (2005) 343-348] the result from [C.M. Ringel, PBW-basis of quantum groups, J. Reine Angew. Math. 470 (1996) 51-85] is generalized to the tilting module case by giving an isomorphism between two Ringel-Hall subalgebras. In [J. Miyashita, Tilting Modules of Finite Projective Dimension, Math. Z. 193 (1986) 113-146] Miyashita generalized the tilting theory by introducing the tilting modules of finite projective dimension. In this paper the result in [A. Wufu, Tilting functors and Ringel-Hall algebras, Comm. Algebra 33 (1) (2005) 343-348] is generalized to the tilting modules of finite projective dimension.     

Linear quivers, generic extensions and Kashiwara operators

In the present paper, we introduce the generic extension graph G of a Dynkin or cyclic quiver Q and then compare this graph with the crystal graph C for the quantized enveloping algebra associated to Q via two maps ℘_Q, _Q : Ω → Λ_Q induced by generic extensions and Kashiwara operators, respectively, where Λ_Q is the set of isoclasses of nilpotent representations of Q, and Ω is the set of all words on the alphabet I, the vertex set of Q. We prove that, if Q is a (finite or infinite) linear quiver, then the intersection of the fibres ℘_Q⁻¹ (λ) and KQ⁻¹ (λ) is non-empty for every λ ∈ Λ _Q. We will also show that this non-emptyness property fails for cyclic quivers.     

Braided algebras and their applications to Noncommutative Geometry

We introduce the notion of a braided algebra and study some examples of these. In particular, R-symmetric and R-skew-symmetric algebras of a linear space V equipped with a skew-invertible Hecke symmetry R are braided algebras. We prove the “mountain property” for the numerators and denominators of their Poincaré–Hilbert series (which are always rational functions).     

Boundary value problems for first order functional differential equations with impulsive integral conditions

In this paper, by using the method of lower and upper solutions coupled with the monotone iterative technique, we give conditions for existence of extreme solutions for first order functional differential equations with a new impulsive integral condition. Some comparison results are also formulated.     

A family of Koszul algebras arising from finite-dimensional representations of simple Lie algebras

Let g be a finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra and let Sg be the locally finite part of the algebra of invariants (EndCV⊗Sg(g)) where V is the direct sum of all simple finite-dimensional modules for g and S(g) is the symmetric algebra of g. Given an integral weight ξ, let Ψ=Ψ(ξ) be the subset of roots which have maximal scalar product with ξ. Given a dominant integral weight λ and ξ such that Ψ is a subset of the positive roots we construct a finite-dimensional subalgebra of Sg and prove that the algebra is Koszul of global dimension at most the cardinality of Ψ. Using this we construct naturally an infinite-dimensional non-commutative Koszul algebra of global dimension equal to the cardinality of Ψ. The results and the methods are motivated by the study of the category of finite-dimensional representations of the affine and quantum affine algebras.     

Classification of arithmetic root systems

Arithmetic root systems are invariants of Nichols algebras of diagonal type with a certain finiteness property. They can also be considered as generalizations of ordinary root systems with rich structure and many new examples. On the other hand, Nichols algebras are fundamental objects in the construction of quantized enveloping algebras, in the noncommutative differential geometry of quantum groups, and in the classification of pointed Hopf algebras by the lifting method of Andruskiewitsch and Schneider. In the present paper arithmetic root systems are classified in full generality. As a byproduct many new finite dimensional pointed Hopf algebras are obtained.     

On tensor representations of knot algebras

Summary The fact that a Yang-Baxter operator defines tensor representations of the Artin braid group has been used to construct knot invariants. The main purpose of this note is to extend the tensor representations of the Artin braid group to representations of the braid groupZ B _k associated to the Coxeter graphB _k. This extension is based on some fundamental identities for the standardR-matrices of quantum Lie theory, here called four braid relations. As an application, tensor representations of knot algebras of typeB (Hecke, Temperley-Lieb, Birman-Wenzl-Murakami) are derived.