Tensor product varieties and crystals: The \(ADE\) case. (Q1395922)

Let \(L\) be a simple simply laced Lie algebra. The author describes tensor product and multiplicity varieties, associated to the Dynkin graph of \(L\), that are closely related to Nakajima's quiver varieties. In particular, the author shows that the set of irreducible components of a tensor product variety can be equipped with the structure of an \(L\)-crystal isomorphic to the crystal of the canonical basis of the tensor product of several simple finite-dimensional representations of \(L\), and that the number of irreducible components of a multiplicity variety is equal to the multiplicity of a certain representation in the tensor product of several others. The decomposition of a tensor product into a direct sum is also described geometrically.