Quantum deformations of certain simple modules over enveloping algebras (Q1106306)

Let \(A\) be a symmetrizable Cartan matrix. Drinfeld and Jimbo have associated to A and to any field \(F\) a Hopf algebra \(\hat U\) (called sometimes ''quantum group'') depending on a parameter \(q\) in \(F\). The universal enveloping algebra of the Kac-Moody Lie algebra over a subfield \(F_ 0\) of F corresponding to \(A\) can be obtained as a limit of \(\hat U\) as \(q\) tends to 1. The main result of the paper is that (when \(\text{char}(F) = 0\) and \(\det(A) = 0\)) any simple integrable highest weight module V of U admits a ''quantum deformation'', i.e. there is a simple \(\hat U\)-module \(\hat V\) such that \(\hat V\) tends to \(V\) as \(q\) tends to 1. Under an additional condition on \(A\), an action of the braid group on \(\hat U\) is described.