Monomial realization of crystal bases for special linear Lie algebras (Q1883010)

H. Nakajima defined a crystal structure on the set of irreducible components of a certain subvariety of a quiver variety. These irreducible components are identified with certain monomials. M. Kashiwara and H. Nakajima gave a crystal structure on the set \(\mathcal M\) of monomials and showed that the connected component \(\mathcal M (\lambda)\) of \(\mathcal M\) containing a highest weight vector with a dominant integral weight \(\lambda\) is isomorphic to the irreducible highest weight crystal \(B(\lambda)\). In the paper under review, the authors give an explicit description of the crystal \(\mathcal M(\lambda)\) for any dominant integral weight \(\lambda\), for special linear Lie algebras. They also compare this monomial realization with the tableau realization given by Kashiwara and Nakashima.