The R-matrix action of untwisted affine quantum groups at roots of 1

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The \(R\)-matrix action of untwisted affine quantum groups at roots of 1




Abstract: Let hatfrakg be an untwisted affine Kac-Moody algebra. The quantum group Uh(hatfrakg) (over mathbbC[[h]]) is known to be a quasitriangular Hopf algebra: in particular, it has a universal R--matrix, which yields an R--matrix for each pair of representations of Uh(hatfrakg). On the other hand, the quantum group Uq(hatfrakg) (over mathbbC(q)) also has an R--matrix for each pair of representations, but it has not a universal R--matrix so that one cannot say that it is quasitriangular. Following Reshetikin, one introduces the (weaker) notion of braided Hopf algebra: then Uq(hatfrakg) is a braided Hopf algebra. In this work we prove that also the unrestricted specializations of Uq(hatfrakg) at roots of 1 are braided: in particular, specializing q at 1 we have that the function algebra of the Poisson proalgebraic group hatH dual of hatG (a Kac-Moody group with Lie algebra hatfrakg,) is braided. This is useful because, despite these specialized quantum groups are not quasitriangular, the braiding is enough for applications, mainly for producing knot invariants. As an example, the action of the R--matrix on (tensor products of) Verma modules can be specialized at odd roots of 1.









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