Diagrammatics for the smallest quantum coideal and Jones--Wenzl projectors

Abstract

We describe algebraically, diagrammatically and in terms of weight vectors, the restriction of tensor powers of the standard representation of quantum $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ to a coideal subalgebra. We realise the category as module category over the monoidal category of type $\pm1$ representations in terms of string diagrams and via generators and relations. The idempotents projecting onto the quantized eigenspaces are described as type $B/D$ analogues of Jones--Wenzl projectors. As an application we introduce and give recursive formulas for analogues of $\Theta$-networks.