Crystal bases for Kac-Moody superalgebras (Q5936187)

The author introduces the notion of crystal bases of integrable modules for the quantized universal enveloping algebras \(U_q(\mathfrak g)\) for Kac-Moody superalgebras \(\mathfrak g\), a special class of algebras constructed in [\textit{G. Benkart, S.-J. Kang} and \textit{D. J. Melville}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 350, 3297-3319 (1998; Zbl 0913.17008)]. The author proves the existence of the crystal bases following Kashiwara's grand loop argument [\textit{M. Kashiwara}, Commun. Math. Phys. 133, 249-260 (1990; Zbl 0724.17009)] and also proves the tensor product rule for these bases. In the proof of the tensor product rule the author uses the representation theory of \(U_q({\mathfrak {osp}}(1,2))\) and simplifies Kashiwara's argument by avoiding the notion of the boson structure on the \(U^-_q(\mathfrak g)\).