Paths, crystals and fermionic formulae

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In recent years many deep connections between exactly solvable lattice models and representation theory have been uncovered. In particular, the Bethe Ansatz and corner transfer matrix techniques from solvable lattice models have been shown to lead to new, so-called fermionic, representations for characters of affine Lie algebras. The paper under review deals with such fermionic formulae for arbitrary quantum affine algebras \(U_q(X_N^{(r)})\), including twisted algebras. An important ingredient in this is Kashiwara's theory of crystal bases. Using this theory, and several conjectures concerning finite crystal bases for \(U'_q(X_N^{(r)})\)-modules, the authors define (level-\(l\)) inhomogeneous path, generalizing Baxter's homogeneous 1-dimensional configuration sums. Based on several known cases, a fermionic expression for \(X_l\) is conjectured (Conjecture 3.10). Since various limits of \(X_l\) (conjecturally) yield affine algebra characters, new fermionic forms for these characters are found. Specifically, an \(X_N^{(r)}\) spinon character formula is given in Proposition 4.5 and a Lepowsky--Primc type expression for the string function of the level \(l\) vacuum module of \(X_N^{(r)}\) in Conjecture 5.3. Finally the \(q=1\) limit of the generating function \(X_l\) and its relation to \(Q\)-systems is studied. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0995.00026].




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