Commuting families in Hecke and Temperley-Lieb Algebras

Arun Ram
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010 Australia
aram@unimelb.edu.au

Last update: 29 January 2014

Abstract

We define analogs of the Jucys-Murphy elements for the affine Temperley-Lieb algebra and give their explicit expansion in terms of the basis of planar Brauer diagrams. These Jucys-Murphy elements are a family of commuting elements in the affine Temperley-Lieb algebra, and we compute their eigenvalues on the generic irreducible representations. We show that they come from Jucys-Murphy elements in the affine Hecke algebra of type A, which in turn come from the Casimir element of the quantum group Uh𝔤𝔩n. We also give the explicit specializations of these results to the finite Temperley-Lieb algebra.

Notes and references

This is a typed version of Commuting families in Hecke and Temperley-Lieb Algebras by Tom Halverson, Manuela Mazzocco and Arun Ram.

AMS Subject Classifications: Primary 20G05; Secondary 16G99, 81R50, 82B20.

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