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Webs and quantum skew Howe duality

Representation Theory 2015-09-03 v4 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We give a diagrammatic presentation in terms of generators mod relations of the representation category of Uq(sln)U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_n). More precisely, we produce all the relations among SLn\rm{SL}_n-webs, thus describing the full subcategory tensor-generated by fundamental representations kCn\bigwedge^k \mathbb{C}^n (this subcategory can be idempotent completed to recover the entire representation category). Our result answers a question posed by Kuperberg [arXiv:q-alg/9712003] and affirms conjectures of Kim [arXiv:math.QA/0310143] and Morrison [arXiv:0704.1503]. Our main tool is an application of quantum skew Howe duality.

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@article{arxiv.1210.6437,
  title  = {Webs and quantum skew Howe duality},
  author = {Sabin Cautis and Joel Kamnitzer and Scott Morrison},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6437},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

32 pages, added a missing relation which had been implicitly used; this version has the same content as the published version

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