A class of non-weight modules of \(U_p(\mathfrak{s} \mathfrak{l}_2)\) and Clebsch-Gordan type formulas (Q2126315)

Quantum groups were initially constructed by Drinfeld, and independently by Jimbo, to study (quantum) Yang-Baxter equations. Given a finite-dimensional semisimple Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\), the quantum group \(U_q(\mathfrak{g})\) is a Hopf algebra that depends on a parameter \(q\in \mathbb{C}\setminus \{0\}\), which is a deformation of the universal enveloping algebra \(U(\mathfrak{g})\). The present authors construct a class of modules for the quantum group \(U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)\), which is free of rank \(1\) when restricted to \(\mathbb{C}[K^{\pm 1}]\); it corresponds to the universal enveloping algebra of the Cartan subalgebra of \(\mathfrak{sl}_2\). They prove that any \(\mathbb{C}[K^{\pm 1}]\)-free \(U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)\)-module of rank \(1\) is isomorphic to one of the modules they constructed (Theorem 3.2, page 747), and their isomorphism classes are obtained (Corollary 3.3, page 748). They also investigate the tensor products of the \(\mathbb{C}[K^{\pm 1}]\)-free modules with finite-dimensional simple modules over \(U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)\). For the generic cases, they obtain direct sum decomposition formulas for them, which are similar to the well-known Clebsch-Gordan formula for tensor products between finite-dimensional weight modules over \(U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)\) (Theorem 4.2, page 750).