Quantum matrices by paths.

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Abstract: We study, from a combinatorial viewpoint, the quantized coordinate ring of mxn matrices over an infinite field K (also called quantum matrices) and its torus-invariant prime ideals. The first part of this paper shows that this algebra, traditionally defined by generators and relations, can be seen as subalgebra of a quantum torus by using paths in a certain directed graph. Roughly speaking, we view each generator of quantum matrices as a sum over paths in the graph, each path being assigned an element of the quantum torus. The quantum matrices relations then arise naturally by considering intersecting paths. This viewpoint is closely related to Cauchon's deleting-derivations algorithm. The second part of this paper is to apply the paths viewpoint to the theory of torus-invariant prime ideals of quantum matrices. We prove a conjecture of Goodearl and Lenagan that all such prime ideals, when the quantum parameter q is a non-root of unity, have generating sets consisting of quantum minors. Previously, this result was known to hold only for char(K)=0 and q transcendental over Q. Our strategy is to show that the quantum minors in a given torus-invariant ideal form a Grobner basis.


Let \(k\) be an infinite field with a nonzero element \(q\) and \(\mathcal O_q(\mathrm{Mat}(m\times n,k))\) the coordinate algebra of quantum \(m\times n\)-matrices with entries from \(k\) and with one parameter \(q\). The first section of the paper presents a survey of results on ring-theoretical properties of \(\mathcal O_q(\mathrm{Mat}(m\times n,k))\). These rings are usually defined in terms of generators and defining relations. The author proposes another approach using the deleting derivations algorithm due to G. Cauchon. This approach is applied to the classification of torus-invariant prime ideals in \(\mathcal O_q(\mathrm{Mat}(m\times n,k))\). It is proved that if \(q\) is not a root of 1 any such ideal is generated by quantum minors. Moreover it is shown that quantum minors form a Gröbner basis of a torus-invariant prime ideal.











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