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Extremal weight projectors II

Representation Theory 2018-03-28 v1 Geometric Topology Quantum Algebra

Abstract

In previous work, we have constructed diagrammatic idempotents in an affine extension of the Temperley-Lieb category, which describe extremal weight projectors for sl(2), and which categorify Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind. In this paper, we generalize the construction of extremal weight projectors to the case of gl(N) for N greater than or equal to 2, with a view towards categorifying the corresponding torus skein algebras via Khovanov-Rozansky link homology. As by-products, we obtain compatible diagrammatic presentations of the representation categories of gl(N) and its Cartan subalgebra, and a categorification of power-sum symmetric polynomials.

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@article{arxiv.1803.09883,
  title  = {Extremal weight projectors II},
  author = {Hoel Queffelec and Paul Wedrich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.09883},
  year   = {2018}
}

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32 pages

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