Crystal graphs and \(q\)-analogues of weight multiplicities for the root system \(A_ n\) (Q1903517): Difference between revisions

The Kostka-Foulkes polynomials \(K_{\lambda \mu} (q)\), of interest on their own, have recently become also relevant for other reasons: the study of certain integrable models in statistical mechanics, and the representation theory of Lie algebras. They happen to coincide with the \(q\)-analogues of multiplicities of weights in the irreducible representations of the Lie algebra \({\mathfrak {sl}} (n, \mathbb{C})\). This paper gives a description of these \(q\)-multiplicities in terms of the action of the Weyl group on the crystal graph \(\Gamma_\lambda\). Crystal graphs are combinatorial objects introduced by \textit{M. Kashiwara} [Duke Math. J. 63, 465-516 (1991; Zbl 0739.17005)] in order to study the representation theory of quantum enveloping algebras \(U_q ({\mathfrak g})\), \({\mathfrak g}\) a symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebra. The authors use the action of the Weyl group which in this case coincides with the action of the symmetric group on the plactic monoid defined by \textit{A. Lascoux} and \textit{M.-P. Schützenberger} [cf. Zbl 0517.20036)]. The results of this paper, have been announced in the C.R. paper reviewed above (see Zbl 0854.17013).