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Gram determinants and semisimplity criteria for Birman-Wenzl algebras

Quantum Algebra 2008-02-18 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we compute the Gram determinants associated to each cell module of the Birman-Wenzl algebras. As a by-product, we give the necessary and sufficient condition for semisimple Birman-Wenzl algebras over an arbitrary field.

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@article{arxiv.math/0607266,
  title  = {Gram determinants and semisimplity criteria for Birman-Wenzl algebras},
  author = {Hebing Rui and Mei Si},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0607266},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

23 pages, we rewrite the paper. In particular, we delete some elementary computation. One can use the GAP program [19] to check the required formulae for small $n$ easily