Imaginary vectors in the dual canonical basis of U_q( n)

-commuting products of vectors of the dual canonical basis. It also shows the existence of finite-dimensional irreducible representations of quantum affine algebras whose tensor square is not irreducible.

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If \(\mathfrak{g}\) is a simple Lie algebra over \(\mathbb C\), \(\mathfrak{n}\) a maximal nilpotent subalgebra of \(\mathfrak{g}\), let \(\mathbf B\) be the canonical basis of \(U_q(\mathfrak{n})\) and \({\mathbf B}^{\ast}\) the dual basis with respect to the natural scalar product in \(U_q(\mathfrak{n})\). Berenstein and Zelevinsky had conjectured that the product \(b_1b_2\) is of the form \(q^mb\), for \(b_1,b_2,b\in{\mathbf B}^{\ast}\) if and only if \(b_1\) and \(b_2\) \(q\)-commute. This would imply that \(b_1^2\) is always of the form \(q^mb\), for \(b_1 \in {\mathbf B}^{\ast}\). Such vectors are called \textit{real}, otherwise they are called \textit{imaginary}. The paper shows that there are imaginary vectors except when \(\mathfrak{g}\) if of type \(A_1,A_2,A_3,A_4,B_2\). The author uses this to exhibit an explicit irreducible representation \(V\) for \(U_q(\hat{sl}_N)\) such that \(V\otimes V\) is not irreducible.

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