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Let G be a simple algebraic group. Labelled trivalent graphs called webs can be used to product invariants in tensor products of minuscule representations. For each web, we construct a configuration space of points in the affine…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Bruce Fontaine , Joel Kamnitzer , Greg Kuperberg

Webs are a kind of planar, directed, edge-labeled graph that encode invariant vectors for quantum representations of $\mathfrak{sl}_n$. The theory of webs developed organically for $\mathfrak{sl}_2$, where they are also known as noncrossing…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Heather M. Russell , Julianna Tymoczko

Webs are graphical objects that give a tangible, combinatorial way to compute and classify tensor invariants. Recently, [Gaetz, Pechenik, Pfannerer, Striker, Swanson 2023+] found a rotation-invariant web basis for $\mathrm{SL}_4$, as well…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Ashleigh Adams , Jessica Striker

Webs give a diagrammatic calculus for spaces of tensor invariants. We introduce hourglass plabic graphs as a new avatar of webs, and use these to give the first rotation-invariant $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_4)$-web basis, a long-sought object. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Christian Gaetz , Oliver Pechenik , Stephan Pfannerer , Jessica Striker , Joshua P. Swanson

Webs are planar graphs with boundary that describe morphisms in a diagrammatic representation category for $\mathfrak{sl}_k$. They are studied extensively by knot theorists because braiding maps provide a categorical way to express link…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Heather M. Russell , Julianna Tymoczko

G.-Pechenik-Pfannerer-Striker-Swanson applied hourglass plabic graphs to construct web bases for spaces of tensor invariants of fundamental representations of $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_4)$, extending Kuperberg's celebrated basis for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Pranav Enugandla , Christian Gaetz

The irreducible representations of symmetric groups can be realized as certain graded pieces of invariant rings, equivalently as global sections of line bundles on partial flag varieties. There are various ways to choose useful bases of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Rebecca Patrias , Oliver Pechenik , Jessica Striker

We give an interpretation of sl_n webs as morphisms between certain singular Soergel bimodules. We explain how this is a combinatorial, algebraic version of the geometric Satake equivalence (in type A). We then q-deform the construction,…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Ben Elias

Webs are sets of Feynman diagrams that contribute to the exponents of scattering amplitudes, in the kinematic limit in which emitted radiation is soft. As such, they have a number of phenomenological and formal applications, and offer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 C. D. White

We compare two natural bases for the invariant space of a tensor product of irreducible representations of A_2, or sl(3). One basis is the web basis, defined from a skein theory called the combinatorial A_2 spider. The other basis is the…

q-alg · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mikhail Khovanov , Greg Kuperberg

The fundamental representations of the special linear group ${\rm SL}_n$ over the complex numbers are the exterior powers of $\mathbb{C}^n$. We consider the invariant rings of sums of arbitrary many copies of these ${\rm SL}_n$-modules. The…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-26 Lukas Braun

We construct and study cluster algebra structures in rings of invariants of the special linear group action on collections of three-dimensional vectors, covectors, and matrices. The construction uses Kuperberg's calculus of webs on marked…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Sergey Fomin , Pavlo Pylyavskyy

The $SU_3$-skein algebra of a surface $F$ is spanned by isotopy classes of certain framed graphs in $F\times I$ called $3$-webs subject to the skein relations encapsulating relations between $U_q(sl(3))$-representations. These skein…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Charles Frohman , Adam S. Sikora

Combinatorial spiders are a model for the invariant space of the tensor product of representations. The basic objects, webs, are certain directed planar graphs with boundary; algebraic operations on representations correspond to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Julianna Tymoczko

We compare two important bases of an irreducible representation of the symmetric group: the web basis and the Specht basis. The web basis has its roots in the Temperley-Lieb algebra and knot-theoretic considerations. The Specht basis is a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Heather M. Russell , Julianna S. Tymoczko

Webs yield an especially important realization of certain Specht modules, irreducible representations of symmetric groups, as they provide a pictorial basis with a convenient diagrammatic calculus. In recent work, the last three authors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Chris Fraser , Rebecca Patrias , Oliver Pechenik , Jessica Striker

We study the structure of the algebra of polynomial invariants for the usual conjugation action of the complex special, SO_n, and general, O_n, orthogonal group on the space of traceless n by n complex matrices. (Note that these two…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2009-09-01 Dragomir Z. Djokovic

Given a semisimple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, we can represent invariants of tensor products of fundamental representations of the quantum enveloping algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{g})$ using particular directed graphs called webs. In particular…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Colin Hagemeyer

Let V be the representation of the quantised enveloping algebra of a general linear group which is the q-analogue of the vector representation. In this paper we construct a basis of the representations obtained by tensoring copies of V and…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2011-06-06 Bruce W. Westbury

Webs give a diagrammatic calculus for spaces of $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_r)$-tensor invariants, but intrinsic characterizations of web bases are only known in certain cases. Recently, we introduced hourglass plabic graphs to give the first such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Christian Gaetz , Oliver Pechenik , Stephan Pfannerer , Jessica Striker , Joshua P. Swanson
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