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In this section, we define the affine Birman-Murakami-Wenzl (BMW) algebra and its degenerate version exactly following our treatment in [DRV1105.4207]. Just as the affine BMW algebras and the affine Hecke algebras are quotients of the group algebra of affine braid group the degenerate affine BMW algebras and the degenerate affine Hecke algebras are quotients of Moreover, the tensor space actions defined in Theorems 1.2 and Theorem 1.3 factor through these quotients in important cases. The affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras arise when is or and is the first fundamental representation; similarly, the affine and degenerate affine Hecke algebras arise when is or and is the first fundamental representation. In the case when is the trivial representation and is the Jucys-Murphy elements in become the Jucys-Murphy elements for the Brauer algebras used in [Naz1996]; in the case that these become the classical Jucys-Murphy elements in the group algebra of the symmetric group.
In defining the affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras, we must make a choice of infinite families of parameters, and respectively. In order to avoid choices which yield the zero algebra, we choose parameters in the ground ring which arise naturally in each of the action theorems below. As we will see in the proofs of Theorem 2.2 and Theorem 2.5 (specifically, the calculations in (2.33) and (2.44)), the natural actions of and on tensor space in Theorems 1.2 and Theorem 1.3 force the parameters to be
Preliminaries on classical type combinatorics. Let The Lie algebras and are given by with bracket Then where is the matrix with 1 in the entry and 0 elsewhere. A Cartan subalgebra of is and the dual basis of is specified by The form is a nondegenerate ad-invariant symmetric bilinear form on such that the restriction to is a nondegenerate form Since is nondegenerate, the map given by is a vector space isomorphism which induces a nondegenerate form on Further, respectively. A Cartan subalgebra of is the orthogonal subspace to The dominant integral weights for index the irreducible finite-dimensional representations of The irreducible finite-dimensional representations of are where is the orthogonal projection of to
The matrix units form a basis of for which the dual basis with respect to the form in (2.1) is So If the Casimir for then the Casimir for where
Let The Lie algebras or are given by where is a nondegenerate bilinear form satisfying Choose so that the matrix of the bilinear form is where and is the transpose of Then, as in Molev [Mol2355506, (7.9)] and [Bou1990, Ch. 8 §13 2.I, 3.I, 4.I], where is the matrix with 1 in the and 0 elsewhere and
A Cartan subalgebra of is The dual basis of is specified by The form is a nondegenerate ad-invariant symmetric bilinear form on such that the restriction to is a nondegenerate form on Since is nondegenerate, the map given by is a vector space isomorphism which induces a nondegenerate form on Let be the form on induced by the form on and the vector space isomorphism given by Further,
With as in (2.7), has basis With respect to the nondegenerate ad-invariant symmetric bilinear form given in (2.10), the dual basis with respect to is The sets are alternate bases, and when or So
To compute the value in (1.17) choose positive roots Since it follows that is the value by which the Casimir acts on Set The quantum dimension of is since, with respect to a weight basis of the eigenvalues of the diagonal matrix are
Identify a weight with the configuration of boxes with boxes in row If is a box in position of then the content of is are the contents of the boxes of If then where is the box at the end of row in By induction, for with
Let be the irreducible highest weight with highest weight and let Then, for or For each component in the decomposition of the values by which acts (see (1.17)) are The second symmetric and exterior powers of are and For all dominant integral weights where the sum over denotes a sum over all dominant weights obtained by adding or removing a box from (by a routine check using the product formula for Weyl characters in [Bou1990, VIII §9 Prop. 2]). If then addition and removal of a box should include the possibility of addition and removal of a box marked with a sign, and removal of a box from row when changes to
Preliminaries on quantum trace. This paragraph provides a brief review of quantum traces and quantum dimensions (see also [CPr1994, 4.2.9]) in the form suitable to our needs for the proofs of the main theorems of this section. If is a finite-dimensional complex Lie algebra with a symmetric nondegenerate ad-invariant bilinear form, and is the Drinfel’d-Jimbo quantum group corresponding to then both are ribbon Hopf algebras ([LRa1977, Corollary (2.15)]). For or let be a finite-dimensional and let be the dual module. Define where is a basis of and is the dual basis in Let be the composition so that is a homomorphism with image a submodule of isomorphic to the trivial representation of
Let be a and let Then,as operators on where the quantum trace is given by The special case when and is the quantum dimension of If is the map defined in (1.26), then (see, for example, [LRa1977, Prop. 3.11]). In the case the ribbon element so that and
The identity (2.23) and the second identity in (2.25) are the source of the connection between quantum traces, the Jones basic construction and conditional expectations (see [GHJ1989, Def. 2.6.6]). These tools are extremely powerful for the study of Temperley-Lieb algebras, Brauer algebras, BMW algebras, and other algebras which arise as tantalizer algebras (tensor power centralizer algebras).
Define in the degenerate affine braid algebra by so that, with as in (1.6), By definition, the algebra is an algebra over a commutative base ring Fix constants The degenerate affine Birman-Wenzl-Murakami (BMW) algebra (with parameters and is the quotient of the degenerate affine braid algebra by the relations The degenerate affine Hecke algebra is the quotient of by the relations
Let be the representation defined in Theorem 1.2.
(a) | Let be or and as in (2.11). Use notations for irreducible representations as in (2.21). Let and let Then is a representation of the degenerate affine BMW algebra |
(b) | If is as in (2.2), and then is a representation of the degenerate affine Hecke algebra. If is as in (2.3), and then given by extends to a representation of the degenerate affine Hecke algebra. |
Proof. | |
(a) The action of on the tensor product of two simple modules is given in (1.17), so the computations in (2.18) determine the action of on the components of The decompositions of the second symmetric and exterior powers in (2.19) and (2.20) determine the action of on The operator is determined from and via (2.28), In summary, and act on the components of by where and are as in (2.13) and (1.15), respectively. The first relation in (2.29) follows.
Since
the first identity in (2.25) gives that
By (2.22), (2.23), and (2.26),
which establishes the second relation in (2.29). Since
it follows from (1.11) that
and by (2.23),
which gives the first relation in (2.30). Since the commute and
it follows that
For or
let and
denote the action of an element on the respectively
and
factors of in
Then, as operators on
because is a projection onto
and the action of and on
is (b) In the case where and So by (1.17), In the case where and As the map given by is an automorphism, the result follows from (2.34) and (2.4). |
Fix The degenerate cyclotomic BMW algebra is the degenerate affine BMW algebra with the additional relation The degenerate cyclotomic Hecke algebra is the degenerate affine Hecke algebra with the additional relation (2.35). In Theorem 2.2, if has eigenvalues then is a representation of or
In general, for any constants and the map given by is an automorphism. So, following the proof of Theorem 2.2(b), given by also extends to a representation of when When is a finite-dimensional highest weight module taking and is combinatorially convenient.
Let be a commutative ring and let be the group algebra of the affine braid group. Fix constants with and invertible. Let so that In the affine braid group Assume is invertible in Define by The affine BMW algebra is the quotient of the group algebra by the relations Left multiplying (2.38) by and using the second identity in (2.36) shows that (2.38) is equivalent to So follows by multiplying the first equation in (2.41) by and using (2.39).
The affine Hecke algebra is the affine BMW algebra with the additional relations
Let be the representation defined in Theorem 1.3.
(a) | Let be or and as in (2.11). Let and Then is a representation of the degenerate affine BMW algebra |
(b) | If is as in (2.2), and then is a representation of the degenerate affine Hecke algebra. If is as in (2.3), and then extends to a representation of the degenerate affine Hecke algebra. |
Proof. | |
(a) By (1.28), the computations in (2.18) determine the action of on the components of The operator is the square root of and, at specializes to the operator that switches the factors in Thus equations (2.19) and (2.20) determine the sign of on each component. The operator is determined from via the first identity in (2.41), Then and act on the components of by The first relation in (2.39) follows from Since (2.25) gives By (2.23), (2.26), (1.27), and (2.13), This establishes the second relation in (2.39). By (2.23), which gives the first relation in (2.40). Since the commute and The proof that is exactly as in the proof of [ORa0401317, Thm. 6.1(c)]: Since using and the pictorial equalities it follows that acts as By (1.26), this is equal to so that This establishes the second relation in (2.40). (b) In the case where and So by (1.28), In the case where and Since the map given by is an automorphism, the result then follows from (2.45) and (2.4) (also see [LRa1977, Prop. 4.4]). |
Fix The cyclotomic BMW algebra is the affine BMW algebra with the additional relation The cyclotomic Hecke algebra is the affine Hecke algebra with the additional relation (2.46). In Theorem 2.5, if has eigenvalues then is a representation of or
This is a typed exert of the paper Affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras: Actions on tensor space by Zajj Daugherty, Arun Ram and Rahbar Virk.