Ben Salisbury ; Adam Schultze ; Peter Tingley - Combinatorial descriptions of the crystal structure on certain PBW bases

dmtcs:6377 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, April 22, 2020, DMTCS Proceedings, 28th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2016) - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.6377
Combinatorial descriptions of the crystal structure on certain PBW basesArticle

Authors: Ben Salisbury ORCID1; Adam Schultze 2; Peter Tingley 3

  • 1 Department of Mathematics - University of Michigan
  • 2 Department of Mathematics [New York CUNY]
  • 3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics [Chicago]

Lusztig's theory of PBW bases gives a way to realize the crystal B(∞) for any simple complex Lie algebra where the underlying set consists of Kostant partitions. In fact, there are many different such realizations, one for each reduced expression for the longest element of the Weyl group. There is an algorithm to calculate the actions of the crystal operators, but it can be quite complicated. For ADE types, we give conditions on the reduced expression which ensure that the corresponding crystal operators are given by simple combinatorial bracketing rules. We then give at least one reduced expression satisfying our conditions in every type except E8, and discuss the resulting combinatorics. Finally, we describe the relationship with more standard tableaux combinatorics in types A and D.


Volume: DMTCS Proceedings, 28th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2016)
Published on: April 22, 2020
Imported on: July 4, 2016
Keywords: Combinatorics,[MATH.MATH-CO]Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO]
Funding:
    Source : OpenAIRE Graph
  • AFFINE CRYSTALS: COMBINATORICS, ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY; Funder: National Science Foundation; Code: 1265555

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