Affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras: The center

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

Last update: 18 October 2013

Contents

1 Introduction
2 Affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras
2.1 The degenerate affine braid algebra ℬk
2.2 The degenerate affine BMW algebra 𝒲k
2.3 The affine braid group Bk
2.4 The affine BMW algebra Wk
3 Identities in affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras
3.1 The degenerate affine case
3.2 The affine case
4 The center of the affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras
4.1 A basis of 𝒲k
4.2 The center of 𝒲k
4.3 A basis of Wk
4.4 The center of Wk

Notes and references

This is a typed exert of the paper Affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras: The center by Zajj Daugherty, Arun Ram and Rahbar Virk.

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