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Heisenberg and Kac-Moody categorification

Representation Theory 2020-11-03 v2

Abstract

We show that any Abelian module category over the (degenerate or quantum) Heisenberg category satisfying suitable finiteness conditions may be viewed as a 2-representation over a corresponding Kac-Moody 2-category (and vice versa). This gives a way to construct Kac-Moody actions in many representation-theoretic examples which is independent of Rouquier's original approach via `control by K_0.' As an application, we prove an isomorphism theorem for generalized cyclotomic quotients of these categories, extending the known isomorphism between cyclotomic quotients of type A affine Hecke algebras and quiver Hecke algebras.

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@article{arxiv.1907.11988,
  title  = {Heisenberg and Kac-Moody categorification},
  author = {Jonathan Brundan and Alistair Savage and Ben Webster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.11988},
  year   = {2020}
}

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52 pages

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