Two boundary Hecke Algebras and the combinatorics of type
Arun Ram
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010 Australia
aram@unimelb.edu.au
Last updated: 27 January 2015
Representations of in tensor space
In this section we give a Schur-Weyl duality approach to the representations of the two boundary Hecke algebras
More generally, in Theorem 5.1 we show that, for a quantum group or quasitriangular Hopf algebra
and three
and there is an action of the two boundary braid group
on tensor space
which commutes with the This means that there is a weak Schur-Weyl
duality pairing between and
so that if is completely
reducible as a then
where are irreducible
and are
In Section 5.4 we will explain that when and and
and are appropriately chosen the provides an
action of the two boundary Hecke algebra (where the parameters depend on the choice of
and Our main theorem, Theorem 5.5, proves that the
which appear in tensor space
are irreducible, and identifies them in terms of the classification of irreducible calibrated
which is given in Theorem 3.3.
Quantum groups and
Let be a finite-dimensional complex Lie algebra with a symmetric nondegenerate ad-invariant bilinear form and let
be the Drinfel'd-Jimbo quantum group corresponding to The quantum group
is a ribbon Hopf algebra with invertible
where
and is the staircase weight (see [LRa1997, Corollary (2.15)]). For
and the map
is a isomorphism. The quasitriangularity of a ribbon Hopf algebra
provides the relations (see, for example, [ORa0401317, (2.9), (2.10), and (2.12)]),
For a define
(see [Dri1990, Prop. 3.2]). Let denote the simple
generated by a highest weight vector of weight
Then
(see [LRa1997, Prop. 2.14] or [Dri1990, Prop. 5.1]). From (5.4) and the relation (5.3) it follows that if
and are finite-dimensional irreducible
of highest weights and respectively, then
acts on the
component
of the decomposition
Let be a finite-dimensional complex Lie algebra with a symmetric nondegenerate
bilinear form, let be the corresponding Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum group, and let
be the center of
Let
and be Then
is a
with
action given by
where
for
with as in (5.1). Moreover, this
action commutes with the
on
Proof.
This proof follows the proof of [ORa0401317, Prop. 3.1], checking that the images of the generators
and
under the map satisfy the relations of presentation (a) of the
two-boundary braid group in Theorem 2.1, as well as relations (2.15) and (2.16) for the extended two-boundary braid group. For
Using the notation for the endomorphism
we have that, for
or
which establishes
The formula
is a consequence of the third set of relations (cabling relations) in (5.2). Finally, the relations
follow from the first and second sets of relations for in (5.2) by the same braid computation by
which the identities (2.13) were derived. The remainder of the relations (commuting generators) follow directly from the definitions of
and
The
Assume that and are finite-dimensional
and that is the highest weight of
so that
Let be an index set for the irreducible
that appear in and let
be an index set for the irreducible
in The Bratteli diagram for the sequence of
is the graph with
vertices on level labeled by
for
edges
for and
and where
each edge labeled with
A specific example in the case where is given in Figure 3.
If and are finite-dimensional then
is completely decomposable as a If
is the space of highest weight vectors of weight in
then
The
are not necessarily irreducible and not necessarily nonisomorphic, though they will be in the (mostly rare but very important) settings where
Recall from (2.9) that
The following proposition shows that, as operators on the
are simultaneously diagonalizable and have eigenvalues determined by the edges on the Bratteli diagram.
The proof follows the same schematic that is used, for example, in the proof of [ORa0401317, Proposition 3.2].
If and are finite-dimensional
modules with irreducible. For
let be the
in (5.8) and let
Then
of simultaneous eigenvectors for the action of
with
so that the eigenvalues of and
on are determined by the labels on the edges of the path
Proof.
The basis
is constructed inductively. For the initial case, choose any basis
of the highest weight vectors in and let
be the set of basis elements in of weight
For the inductive step, assume that
has been constructed so that
The set
is a basis of the vector space of highest weight vectors of weight in
that is indexed by the paths
of length in the Bratteli diagram that end at In this form
denotes the
irreducible of
with highest weight vector of weight
Then, for each
in choose a basis
of highest weight vectors in the submodule of
given by
The basis is indexed by the
edges in the Bratteli diagram from to a partition on level
Then
The central element in
acts on the submodule
of
by the constant
From (5.2), (5.3) and (5.4) it follows that acts on
by
where
is the projection onto the isotypic component of
Thus acts diagonally on the basis
and, by the definition of the labels of edges in the Bratteli diagram in (5.7), the eigenvalues of
where is the label on the edge
in the Bratteli diagram.
Some tensor products for
The finite-dimensional irreducible polynomial representations of
are indexed by elements of
Use
as in [Mac1354144, I (1.13)]. Identify each element
in with the corresponding partition having
boxes in row so that, for example,
The content of the box in row and column of a partition
where the diagonals are numbered by the elements of from southwest to northeast, with the northwest corner box of a partition being in
diagonal 0.
The representation
is the standard representation of
When the decompsition in (5.5) is given by
where is the set of partitions obtained by adding a box to
If and
is the box added to to obtain then the action in (5.5) is given by
(see [Mac1354144, I (5.16) and (8.4)]). Since
it follows by induction on the number of boxes in a partition that
For
the decomposition of the tensor product
can be calculated using the Littlewood-Richardson rule (see [Mac1354144, Ch. I (9.2)]). When and are rectangles
the decomposition is multiplicity free by the following theorem. In equation (5.15), consists of the boxes that are in the union of the
rectangles and
(placed with northwest corner at and the dashed rectangular
regions are the rectangle
with northwest corner box at
and the rectangle
with northwest corner at
(See [Sta1986-2, Lem. 3.3], [Oka1998, Thm 2.4]) Let
such that For let
so that is the rotation of the complement of
in a rectangle. Denote the
rectangular partition with rows of length by
Then
where
For an example of the decomposition in (5.16), see Figure 3, where the decomposition of
for is indicated in level of the Bratteli diagram
(see the description following (5.23) for explanation of the Bratteli diagram).
The value in (5.5) for the product in (5.16) is given by using (5.14) to compute
Irreducible in
In this subsection we provide, for
specific highest weight modules and
such that the factors through the extended two-boundary
Hecke algebra In these cases the
in (5.8) are calibrated
Theorem 5.5 identifies the for these cases explicitly in terms of the indexings of calibrated
given in Theorem 3.3 and Proposition 3.1.
Recall that, as defined in Section 2.2, the extended two-boundary Hecke algebra is the
quotient of the group algebra of the extended two-boundary braid group
by the relations
for fixed
If
and
then the map from Proposition 5.1 gives an action of
on commuting with that of
Proof.
The module decomposes as
By (5.5) and (5.13),
acts on the first summand by the constant and on the second summand by the constant
So
by replacing with
The relation
follows similarly by considering the tensor product
From (2.17), (5.19) and (3.5),
Using these conversions, the genericity conditions in (4.1) become requirements that is not a root of unity and
In the context of Theorem 5.4, these genericity conditions are conditions that
In the setting of Theorem 5.4, equation (5.8) provides
with
Theorem 5.5 below will accomplish our primary goal for this paper by identifying the module
explicitly as a calibrated
as constructed in Theorem 3.3. The results of (5.12), (5.13), and Proposition 5.3 show that the Bratteli diagram of (5.7) has
as in Theorem 5.3 and, for
By (5.17), if
then there is an edge
For the edges from level
to level correspond to adding a single box to to get
and are labeled by the content of the box
The case when and
with
is illustrated in Figure 3.
Let Define
Using notation as in (5.15), let
Define the shifted content of a box by
be the sequence of absolute values of the shifted contents of the boxes in
arranged in increasing order. Index the boxes of
with so that
and define
so that is a subset of
where is as defined in (3.7).
Let and let
and
so that
acts on
as in Theorem 5.4. Assume that the genericity conditions of (5.22) hold so that is not a root of unity,
and
For let
be the of (5.23) and define
and as in (5.26), (5.27), and
(5.28). Then
Proof.
By Proposition 5.2, is a calibrated
module. Therefore has a composition series with factors that are irreducible calibrated
By Theorem 3.3, each factor is isomorphic to some
where
is a skew local region, and
is determined by the eigenvalues of the action of
By Proposition 5.2, the simultaneous eigenbasis
is indexed by
To determine which
appear as composition factors of it is necessary to compute the eigenvalues of the action of the
on the basis vectors
as follows.
By (5.24), (5.25) and the formulas in Proposition 5.2,
Using (2.18) and (5.19),
with
and
and thus
Then
so that, with and as in (5.26),
Let
be a path to in the Bratteli diagram. In the context of the diagrams in (5.15), the partitions
and differ moving some boxes from
to (from the NW border of
in to the NW border of
in Thus the sequence
where
coincides with as defined in (5.27). Let
be the minimal length element such that
where for
The signed permutation is the unique signed permutation such that
where is as in (3.6). If the boxes of
are indexed according to the same conditions as
just before (5.28) then is the signed permutation given by
where the path is identified with the standard tableau of shape
that has
filled with
The basis vector appears in a composition factor isomorphic to
where
as defined in (3.2) and (3.7), are given by
To describe
in terms of the boxes in first record that
Next analyze
Since and
then
Case 1:
so that
Case 1a:
If is NW of then
and
If is SE of then
and
Case 1b:
Then
so that and
Case 2:
so that
Case 2a:
If is NW of then
so that and
If is SE of then
so that and
Case 2b:
Then and
so that
Finally, analyze
Since and
then Since the entries of
are in or in then the possiblities
for are
and
and the possibilities for
are or
or or
Case 1:
and
If is NW of then
so that
and
If is SE of then
so that
and
Case 2:
and
If is NW of then
so that
and
If is SE of then
so that
and
Case 3:
and
Then
so that
and
Case 4:
and
This case cannot occur since, when indexing the boxes of
the boxes of shifted content are numbered before the boxes of shifted content
Case 5:
and
If is NW of then
and
so that
If is SE of then
and
so that
Case 6:
and
Then
and
so that
This analysis shows that
is as given in (5.28).
A consequence of the description of in (5.28) is that
is independent of the choice of
It follows that all composition factors of are isomorphic to
Let such that
and have the same eigenvalues for
By definition of
Since
and
then
which implies that
Using this and the fact that the eigenvalues of on
and are the same, similarly implies that
Induction gives that
Thus
(in the notation of (3.1)) and
as
In the course of the proof of Theorem 5.5 we have also established the following result, which deserves mention.
Keeping the notations of Theorem 5.5, let
let and let
be the signed permutation defined in (5.33). Then
Let
and
so that
The partition
is in with
The maximal is
indicates the indexing of the boxes in
and the shaded portion of is
The contents of the boxes
for are
the shifted contents
for are
The sum of the contents of the boxes in is 1, the sum of the
contents of the boxes in is 23,
is the sequence of absolute values of the shifted contents, arranged in increasing order. Using (5.33),
and
consists of the outlined elements of (which is the same as the outlined
elements of
Another is
Keeping the setting of Theorem 5.5, Proposition 3.1 associates a configuration of boxes to
This configuration can be described in
terms of the data of as follows. With
as defined just before (5.27), let
be the rotation of the skew shape
Then
so that it is the (disjoint) union of two skew shapes
and
placed with
northwest of
positioned so that the contents of its boxes
are
positioned so that the contents of its boxes are
and with markings placed at the NE and SW corners of the rectangles and
(in the notation of (5.15)). The resulting doubled skew shape is symmetric under the rotation which
sends a box on diagonal to a box on diagonal
In the case of Example 3 the corresponding configuration of boxes is
This configuration of boxes also appeared in Example 2.
For generically large
there will be examples of
with and
as see Example 4. This is because the eigenvalues of
on are not sufficient to distinguish the components of
as a
It could be helpful to further extend and consider an algebra
acting on
Let and
Then
but, as
Recall from (5.23) that
A consequence of Theorem 3.3(b) is the following construction of the irreducible
Keeping the setting and notation of (5.30), for
and
let
The path is unique if it exists: If
then is obtained by adding a box to
and
is obtained by moving a box of to the position of the added box in
In the case that
the paths and
satisfy
and the partitions
and in
differ by the placement of one box, with
where the shifted content of a box is as defined in (5.27).
Keep the conditions of Theorems 5.4 and 5.5. Assume that the genericity conditions of (5.22) hold so that is not a root of unity,
and
Let Then
has a basis
such that the is given by
where if
does not exist and
Proof.
The appropriate basis of is that given in Proposition 5.2 and used also in the proof of Theorem
5.5. It is only necessary to convert from the notation in Theorem 3.3 to the notation
using the bijection in Corollary 5.6. Recall from (5.21) that
From (3.12) and (5.31),
From (2.18), (2.9) and (h),
and
With these conversions, the formulas from (3.13) and (3.14) become
with
On the two-dimensional subspace
the action of in the basis
is a symmetric matrix and so the matrix of
in this basis is
is also symmetric. The action of is by a diagonal matrix
so
Therefore, using
from (2.9) and
from (h), we have
and so
Thus
since is a matrix with
eigenvalues and (as in the proof of Theorem 3.3). Thus
By (5.36),
so that
Thus
Figure 3: Levels and of a Bratteli diagram
encoding isotypic components of where
and
The edges from level to level are labeled by
as in (5.17); the edges from level to are labeled by the content of the box added.
Notes and References
This is an excerpt from the paper Two boundary Hecke Algebras and the combinatorics of type
Zajj Daugherty (Department of Mathematics, The City College of New York, NAC 8/133, Convent Ave at 138th Street, New York, NY 10031) and
Arun Ram (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia).