Indecomposable tilting modules for the blob algebra (Q2215786)

The blob algebra is an important algebra which has been introduced by \textit{P. Martin} and \textit{H. Saleur} [Lett. Math. Phys. 30, No. 3, 189--206 (1994; Zbl 0799.16005)]. It can be seen as an analogue of the Temperley-Lieb algebra for Iwahori-Hecke algebras of type \(B_n\). The representation theory of the blob algebra has been well studied during the past decades. For certain choice of parameters, including the ones studied in this paper (the doubly critical case), the algebra is non semisimple, even in characteristic \(0\). However, it is always a quasi-hereditary algebra and there is thus a notion of tilting modules for it. A tilting module is a module which admits a filtration by Weyl modules and a filtration by dual Weyl modules. The main aim of this paper is to give an explicit description of indecomposable tilting modules in this case (see the main theorem in the introduction). Quite remarkably, the proofs are based on the graded structure of the blob algebra (which follows from a famous theorem by \textit{J. Brundan} and \textit{A. Kleshchev} [Invent. Math. 178, No. 3, 451--484 (2009; Zbl 1201.20004)]). The authors also show that the graded Weyl filtration multiplicities of the indecomposable tilting modules are given by inverse Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of type \(\widetilde{A}_1\). A natural conjecture is also given concerning the same problem proposed for the generalised blob algebra.