A category for the adjoint representation

DOI10.1006/JABR.2001.8962MaRDI QIDQ5957524zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruth Stella Huerfano, Mikhail Khovanov

Publication date 15 April 2003

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0002060

adjoint representation Dynkin diagram exact functor quantum group trivial extension

Representations of associative Artinian rings (16G10) Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37)

Abstract: We construct an abelian category C and exact functors in C which on the Grothendieck group descend to the action of a simply-laced quantum group in its adjoint representation. The braid group action in the adjoint representation lifts to an action in the derived category of C. The category C is the direct sum of a semisimple category and the category of modules over a certain algebra A, associated to a Dynkin diagram. In the second half of the paper we show how these algebras appear in the modular representation theory and in the McKay correspondence and explore their relationship with root systems.

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Given a finite graph \(\Gamma\), one may have a quiver with the given underlying graph and a quotient algebra of the corresponding path algebra (over the complex field) of the quiver modulo the paths of length greater than one. Let \(\Lambda (\Gamma)\) be the trivial extension of this quotient algebra. In the paper under review the authors construct an Abelian category \(\mathcal C\) based on both the category of all finite-dimensional graded left \(\Lambda (\Gamma)\)-modules and the category of all vector spaces over the complex field. On this category \(\mathcal C\) the authors define some functors and then use these functors to give a realization of the quantum group \(U_q(\mathfrak g)\) of the simple Lie algebra \(\mathfrak g\) if \(\Gamma\) is the Dynkin diagram determining \(\mathfrak g\). Some other properties related to the action of the braid group (defined by the graph \(\Gamma\)) on the derived category of the \(\Lambda(\Gamma)\)-modules are discussed. There is a related paper on \(\lambda(\Gamma)\), as mentioned in the paper, namely, the work of [\textit{R. Martínez-Villa}, CMS Conf. Proc. 18, 487-504 (1996; Zbl 0860.16010)].

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