Crystal structure of level zero extremal weight modules (Q1868223)

Let \(\widehat{{\mathfrak g}}\) be a symmetric untwisted affine Lie algebra and \(U_q(\widehat{{\mathfrak g}})\) the quantum affine algebra as in \textit{J. Beck, V. Chari} and \textit{A. Pressley} [Duke Math. J. 99, 455-487 (1999; Zbl 0964.17013)]. The crystal structure of the level zero extremal weight modules \(V(\lambda)\) is considered by using the crystal base of \(U_q(\widehat{{\mathfrak g}})\). An explicit form for extremal weight vectors in the \(U^-\) part of each connected component of the crystal is given by using Schur functions in the imaginary root vectors. Thus a conjecture of Kashiwara is checked in the symmetric untwisted case.