Simple tensor products (Q993383)

Assume that \(q\neq 0\) is not a root of unity in the field of complex numbers. Let \(\mathcal F\) be the category of finite-dimensional representations of an arbitrary quantum affine algebra with parameter \(q\). In this paper, the author proves that a tensor product \(S _{1} \otimes \cdots \otimes S _{N }\) of simple objects of \(\mathcal F\) is simple if and only \(S _{i } \otimes S _{j }\) is simple for any \(i<j\).