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Peter Tingley

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arXiv2013

Affine Mirković-Vilonen polytopes

Each integrable lowest weight representation of a symmetrizable Kac-Moody Lie algebra g has a crystal in the sense of Kashiwara, which describes its combinatorial properties. For a given g, there is a limit crystal, usually denoted by B(-\infty), which contains all the other crystals. When g is finite dimensional, a convex polytope, called the Mirković-Vilonen polytope, can be associated to each element in B(-\infty). This polytope sits in the dual space of a Cartan subalgebra of g, and its edges are parallel to the roots of g. In this paper, we generalize this construction to the case where g is a symmetric affine Kac-Moody algebra. The datum of the polytope must however be complemented by partitions attached to the edges parallel to the imaginary root δ. We prove that these decorated polytopes are characterized by conditions on their normal fans and on their 2-faces. In addition, we discuss how our polytopes provide an analog of the notion of Lusztig datum for affine Kac-Moody algebras. Our main tool is an algebro-geometric model for B(-\infty) constructed by Lusztig and by Kashiwara and Saito, based on representations of the completed preprojective algebra Λ of the same type as g. The underlying polytopes in our construction are described with the help of Buan, Iyama, Reiten and Scott's tilting theory for the category Λ-mod. The partitions we need come from studying the category of semistable Λ-modules of dimension-vector a multiple of δ.

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arXiv2013

Combinatorial realizations of crystals via torus actions on quiver varieties

Consider Kashiwara's crystal associated to a highest weight representation of a symmetric Kac-Moody algebra. There is a geometric realization of this object using Nakajima's quiver varieties, but in many particular cases it can also be realized by elementary combinatorial methods. Here we propose a framework for extracting combinatorial realizations from the geometric picture: We construct certain torus actions on the quiver varieties and use Morse theory to index the irreducible components by connected components of the subvariety of torus fixed points. We then discuss the case of affine sl(n). There the fixed point components are just points, and are naturally indexed by multi-partitions. There is some choice in our construction, leading to a family of combinatorial models for each highest weight crystal. Applying this construction to the crystal of the fundamental representation recovers a family of combinatorial realizations recently constructed by Fayers. This gives a more conceptual proof of Fayers' result as well as a generalization to higher level. We also discuss a relationship with Nakajima's monomial crystal.

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arXiv2012

Affine PBW Bases and MV Polytopes in Rank 2

Mirkovic-Vilonen (MV) polytopes have proven to be a useful tool in understanding and unifying many constructions of crystals for finite-type Kac-Moody algebras. These polytopes arise naturally in many places, including the affine Grassmannian, pre-projective algebras, PBW bases, and KLR algebras. There has recently been progress in extending this theory to the affine Kac-Moody algebras. A definition of MV polytopes in symmetric affine cases has been proposed using pre-projective algebras. In the rank-2 affine cases, a combinatorial definition has also been proposed. Additionally, the theory of PBW bases has been extended to affine cases, and, at least in rank-2, we show that this can also be used to define MV polytopes. The main result of this paper is that these three notions of MV polytope all agree in the relevant rank-2 cases. Our main tool is a new characterization of rank-2 affine MV polytopes.

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arXiv2012

Demazure crystals, Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals, and the energy function

It has previously been shown that, at least for non-exceptional Kac-Moody Lie algebras, there is a close connection between Demazure crystals and tensor products of Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals. In particular, certain Demazure crystals are isomorphic as classical crystals to tensor products of Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals via a canonically chosen isomorphism. Here we show that this isomorphism intertwines the natural affine grading on Demazure crystals with a combinatorially defined energy function. As a consequence, we obtain a formula of the Demazure character in terms of the energy function, which has applications to Macdonald polynomials and q-deformed Whittaker functions.

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arXiv2012

Rank 2 affine MV polytopes

We give a realization of the infinity crystal for affine sl(2) using decorated polygons. The construction and proof are combinatorial, making use of Kashiwara and Saito's characterization of the infinity crystal in terms of the * involution. The polygons we use have combinatorial properties suggesting they are the analogues in this case of the Mirkovic-Vilonen polytopes defined by Anderson and the third author in finite type. Using Kashiwara's similarity of crystals we also give MV polytopes for $A_2^{(2)}$, the only other rank two affine Kac-Moody algebra.

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arXiv2011

Random skew plane partitions with a piecewise periodic back wall

Random skew plane partitions of large size distributed according to an appropriately scaled Schur process develop limit shapes. In the present work we consider the limit of large random skew plane partitions where the inner boundary approaches a piecewise linear curve with non-lattice slopes, describing the limit shape and the local fluctuations in various regions. This analysis is fairly similar to that in [OR2], but we do find some new behavior. For instance, the boundary of the limit shape is now a single smooth (not algebraic) curve, whereas the boundary in [OR2] is singular. We also observe the bead process introduced in [B] appearing in the asymptotics at the top of the limit shape.

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arXiv2011

Universal Verma modules and the Misra-Miwa Fock space

The Misra-Miwa $v$-deformed Fock space is a representation of the quantized affine algebra of type A. It has a standard basis indexed by partitions and the non-zero matrix entries of the action of the Chevalley generators with respect to this basis are powers of $v$. Partitions also index the polynomial Weyl modules for the quantum group $U_q(gl_N)$ as $N$ tends to infinity. We explain how the powers of $v$ which appear in the Misra-Miwa Fock space also appear naturally in the context of Weyl modules. The main tool we use is the Shapovalov determinant for a universal Verma module

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arXiv2010

A formula for the R-matrix using a system of weight preserving endomorphisms

We give a formula for the universal R-matrix of the quantized universal enveloping algebra $U_q(\g).$ This is similar to a previous formula due to Kirillov-Reshetikhin and Levendorskii-Soibelman, except that where they use the action of the braid group element $T_{w_0}$ on each representation, we show that one can instead use a system of weight preserving endomorphisms. One advantage of our construction is that it is well defined for all symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras. However we have only established that the result in equal to the universal R-matrix in finite type.

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arXiv2010

Monomial Crystals and Partition Crystals

Recently Fayers introduced a large family of combinatorial realizations of the fundamental crystal for affine sl(n), where the vertices are indexed by certain partitions. He showed that special cases of this construction agree with the Misra-Miwa realization and with Berg's ladder crystal. Here we show that another special case is naturally isomorphic to a realization using Nakajima's monomial crystal.

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arXiv2009

The half-twist for U_q(g) representations

We introduce the notion of a half-ribbon Hopf algebra, which is a ribbon Hopf algebra along with a distinguished element $t$ corresponding to twisting a ribbon by 180 degrees (the half-twist). We show that U_q(g) is a (topological) half-ribbon Hopf algebra, but only if one uses a modified ribbon element. We then discuss some consequences of using this modified ribbon element.

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arXiv2008

A half-twist type formula for the R-matrix of a symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebra

Kirillov-Reshetikhin and Levendorskii-Soibelman developed a formula for the universal R-matrix of the form R=(X^{-1} \otimes X^{-1}) Δ(X). The action of X on a representation V permutes weight spaces according to the longest element in the Weyl group, so is only defined in finite type. We give a similar formula which is valid for the quantized universal enveloping algebra of any symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebra. This is done by replacing the action of X on V with an endomorphism that preserves weight spaces, but which is bar-linear instead of linear.

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arXiv2008

Three combinatorial models for affine sl(n) crystals, with applications to cylindric plane partitions

We define three combinatorial models for \hat{sl(n)} crystals, parametrized by partitions, configurations of beads on an `abacus', and cylindric plane partitions, respectively. These are reducible, but we can identify an irreducible subcrystal corresponding to any dominant integral highest weight. Cylindric plane partitions actually parametrize a basis for the tensor product of an irreducible representation with the space spanned by all partitions. We use this to calculate the partition function for a system of random cylindric plane partitions. We also observe a form of rank level duality. Finally, we use an explicit bijection to relate our work to the Kyoto path model.

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arXiv2008

Some results on the crystal commutor and affine sl(n) crystals

There are two parts to this work, which are largely independent. The first consists of a series of results concerning the crystal commutor of Henriques and Kamnitzer. We first describe the relationship between the crystal commutor and Drinfeld's unitarized R-matrix. We then give a new definition for the crystal commutor, which makes sense for any symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebra. We show that this new definition agrees with A. Henriques and J. Kamnitzer's definition in the finite type case, but we cannot prove our commutor remains a coboundary structure in other cases. Next, we extend these ideas to give a new formula for the standard R-matrix. In the second part, we define three combinatorial models for affine sl(n) crystals. These are parameterized by partitions, configurations of beads on an "abacus", and cylindric plane partitions, respectively. Our models are reducible, but we can identify an irreducible subcrystal corresponding to any dominant integral highest weight. Cylindric plane partitions actually parameterize a basis for an irreducible representation of affine gl(n). This allows us to calculate the partition function for a system of random cylindric plane partitions first studied by A. Borodin. We also observe a form of rank-level duality, originally due to I. Frenkel.

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arXiv2008

The crystal commutor and Drinfeld's unitarized R-matrix

Drinfeld defined a unitarized R-matrix for any quantum group U_q(g). This gives a commutor for the category of U_q(g) representations, making it into a coboundary category. Henriques and Kamnitzer defined another commutor which also gives U_q(g) representations the structure of a coboundary category. We show that a particular case of Henriques and Kamnitzer's construction agrees with Drinfeld's commutor. We then describe the action of Drinfeld's commutor on a tensor product of two crystal bases, and explain the relation to the crystal commutor.

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arXiv2008

A definition of the crystal commutor using Kashiwara's involution

Henriques and Kamnitzer defined and studied a commutor for the category of crystals of a finite dimentional complex reductive Lie algebra. We show that the action of this commutor on highest weight elements can be expressed very simply using Kashiwara's involution on the Verma crystal.

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