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Crystals from categorified quantum groups

Representation Theory 2011-08-02 v2

Abstract

We study the crystal structure on categories of graded modules over algebras which categorify the negative half of the quantum Kac-Moody algebra associated to a symmetrizable Cartan data. We identify this crystal with Kashiwara's crystal for the corresponding negative half of the quantum Kac-Moody algebra. As a consequence, we show the simple graded modules for certain cyclotomic quotients carry the structure of highest weight crystals, and hence compute the rank of the corresponding Grothendieck group.

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@article{arxiv.0909.1810,
  title  = {Crystals from categorified quantum groups},
  author = {Aaron D. Lauda and Monica Vazirani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.1810},
  year   = {2011}
}

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56 pages, 6 eps files. v2 corrects typos

R2 v1 2026-06-21T13:44:37.069Z