Polytopes associated to Demazure modules of symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras of rank two (Q1570866)

Let \(\omega_1\), \(\omega_2\) be the fundamental weights of a finite or affine Kac-Moody algebra of rank two, and \(\tau\) an element of the Weyl group. The author constructs polytopes \(P_\tau(\omega_1)\), \(P_\tau(\omega_2)\subset\mathbb R^{l(\tau)}\) such that for any integral dominant weight \(\lambda=k_1\omega_1+k_2\omega_2\) there is a canonical bijection between integral points of the Minkowski sum \(k_1P_\tau(\omega_1)+k_2P_\tau(\omega_2)\) and Lakshmibai-Seshadri paths in \(\Pi_\tau(\lambda)\) [cf. \textit{P. Littelmann}, Adv. Math. 124, 312-331 (1996; Zbl 0892.17009)]. As an application the author gives a combinatorial description of weight multiplicities of a Demazure module \(E_\tau(\lambda)\) by constructing a linear map \(\xi \: \mathbb R^{l(\tau)}\to\mathfrak h^*\) so that \(\text{Char} E_\tau(\lambda) = e^\lambda\sum e^{\xi(x)}\), where the sum is over all integral points \(x\) of the polytope \(k_1P_\tau(\omega_1)+k_2P_\tau(\omega_2)\). The author also shows that there exists a flat deformation of the Schubert variety \(S_\tau\) into the toric variety defined by \(P_\tau(\omega_1)\), \(P_\tau(\omega_2)\).