Classical weight modules over quantum groups

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Abstract: imathquantum groups are generalizations of quantum groups which appear as coideal subalgebras of quantum groups in the theory of quantum symmetric pairs. In this paper, we define the notion of classical weight modules over an imathquantum group, and study their properties along the lines of the representation theory of weight modules over a quantum group. In several cases, we classify the finite-dimensional irreducible classical weight modules by a highest weight theory.


An \(\imath\)quantum group \(U^\imath\), introduced by Bao-Wang, is a variant of Drinfeld-Jimbo's quantum group \(U = U(\mathfrak{g})\) in the sense that \((U, U^\imath)\) forms a quantum symmetric pair due to Letzter-Kolb. Although \(U^\imath\) has many parallel theories to the quantum groups such as the canonical bases, it remains open to obtain a classification of finite dimensional irreducibles. The major difficulty is the lack of Cartan subalgebras for \(U^\imath\). A workaround solution is provided in this paper for certain cases. The author introduced the notion of classical weight modules over such \(\imath\)quantum groups, and then obtained a classification theorem for the finite-dimenisonal irreducible classical weight modules. Note that here the (\(\imath\))quantum groups are over the field \(\mathbb{C}(q)\) of rational functions. The author introduced a hyperalgebra \(\mathcal{U}^\imath \supsetneq U^\imath\) so that the study of all classical weight modules over \(U^\imath\) can be reduced to studying the module category of \(\mathcal{U}^\imath\), in which a root space decomposition can be explicitly described, which leads to Conjecture 3.3.3 that there exists a triangular decomposition for \(\mathcal{U}^\imath\) with a non-commutative zero part. The author has verified the conjecture in several cases, including \(\mathfrak{g} = \mathfrak{sl}_n\). As an upshot, the classification theorem is obtained for these cases. In other words, a unified approach was obtained for (part of) the classification theorems for \((\mathfrak{sl}_{2n}, \mathfrak{sp}_{2n})\) due to Molev; for \((\mathfrak{gl}_{n}, \mathfrak{so}_{n})\) due to Iorgov, Wenzl; for \((\mathfrak{sl}_{2n+1}, \mathfrak{s}(\mathfrak{gl}_{n}\oplus\mathfrak{gl}_{n+1}))\) due to the author. On top of these, the classificaiton theorem for \((\mathfrak{sl}_{2n}, \mathfrak{s}(\mathfrak{gl}_{n}\oplus\mathfrak{gl}_{n}))\) is new.











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