Affine RSK correspondence and crystals of level zero extremal weight modules

Abstract

We give an affine analogue of the Robison-Schensted-Knuth (RSK) correspondence, which generalizes the affine Robinson-Schensted correspondence by Chmutov-Pylyavskyy-Yudovina. The affine RSK map sends a generalized affine permutation of period $(m,n)$ to a pair of tableaux $(P,Q)$ of the same shape, where $P$ belongs to a tensor product of level one perfect Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals of type $A_{m-1}^{(1)}$, and $Q$ belongs to a crystal of extremal weight module of type $A_{n-1}^{(1)}$ when $m,n\ge 2$. We consider two affine crystal structures of types $A_{m-1}^{(1)}$ and $A_{n-1}^{(1)}$ on the set of generalized affine permutations, and show that the affine RSK map preserves the crystal equivalence. We also give a dual affine Robison-Schensted-Knuth correspondence.