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Universal K-matrices for quantum Kac-Moody algebras
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by Andrea Appel and Bart Vlaar PDF
Represent. Theory 26 (2022), 764-824 Request permission

Abstract:

We introduce the notion of a cylindrical bialgebra, which is a quasitriangular bialgebra $H$ endowed with a universal K-matrix, i.e., a universal solution of a generalized reflection equation, yielding an action of cylindrical braid groups on tensor products of its representations. We prove that new examples of such universal K-matrices arise from quantum symmetric pairs of Kac-Moody type and depend upon the choice of a pair of generalized Satake diagrams. In finite type, this yields a refinement of a result obtained by Balagović and Kolb, producing a family of non-equivalent solutions interpolating between the quasi-K-matrix originally due to Bao and Wang and the full universal K-matrix. Finally, we prove that this construction yields formal solutions of the generalized reflection equation with a spectral parameter in the case of finite-dimensional representations over the quantum affine algebra $U_qL\mathfrak {sl}_{2}$.
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Additional Information
  • Andrea Appel
  • Affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Informatiche, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 53/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
  • MR Author ID: 1269493
  • ORCID: 0000-0002-6446-9305
  • Email: andrea.appel@unipr.it
  • Bart Vlaar
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom; and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Vivatsgasse 7, 53111 Bonn, Germany
  • MR Author ID: 1025642
  • ORCID: 0000-0002-0792-720X
  • Email: vlaar@mpim-bonn.mpg.de
  • Received by editor(s): September 7, 2020
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 2, 2022, and June 2, 2022
  • Published electronically: July 19, 2022
  • Additional Notes: The first author was supported in part by the ERC Grant 637618 and the Programme FIL of the University of Parma co-sponsored by Fondazione Cariparma. The second author was supported in part by the EPSRC Grant EP/R009465/1.
  • © Copyright 2022 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Represent. Theory 26 (2022), 764-824
  • MSC (2020): Primary 81R10, 17B37; Secondary 17B67, 16T10
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/ert/623
  • MathSciNet review: 4454332