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Canonical bases arising from quantum symmetric pairs of Kac–Moody type

Part of: Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2021

Huanchen Bao  and
Weiqiang Wang
Huanchen Bao
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore119076huanchen@nus.edu.sg
Weiqiang Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA22904, USAww9c@virginia.edu
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Abstract

For quantum symmetric pairs $(\textbf {U}, \textbf {U}^\imath )$ of Kac–Moody type, we construct $\imath$-canonical bases for the highest weight integrable $\textbf U$-modules and their tensor products regarded as $\textbf {U}^\imath$-modules, as well as an $\imath$-canonical basis for the modified form of the $\imath$-quantum group $\textbf {U}^\imath$. A key new ingredient is a family of explicit elements called $\imath$-divided powers, which are shown to generate the integral form of $\dot {\textbf {U}}^\imath$. We prove a conjecture of Balagovic–Kolb, removing a major technical assumption in the theory of quantum symmetric pairs. Even for quantum symmetric pairs of finite type, our new approach simplifies and strengthens the integrality of quasi-$K$-matrix and the constructions of $\imath$-canonical bases, by avoiding a case-by-case rank-one analysis and removing the strong constraints on the parameters in a previous work.

Keywords

quantum symmetric pairscanonical basesKac–Moody type

MSC classification

Primary: 17B10: Representations, algebraic theory (weights)

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Compositio Mathematica , Volume 157 , Issue 7 , July 2021 , pp. 1507 - 1537
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