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Intrinsic energy is a loop Schur function

Quantum Algebra 2014-07-25 v2 Combinatorics Representation Theory

Abstract

We give an explicit subtraction-free formula for the energy function in tensor products of Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals for symmetric powers of the standard representation of U_q'(\hat sl_n). The energy function is shown to be the tropicalization of a stretched staircase shape loop Schur function. The latter were introduced by the authors in the study of total positivity in loop groups.

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@article{arxiv.1003.3948,
  title  = {Intrinsic energy is a loop Schur function},
  author = {Thomas Lam and Pavlo Pylyavskyy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.3948},
  year   = {2014}
}

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10 pages

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