Roots of unity: Representations of quantum groups

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Abstract: Representations of Quantum Groups U_q (g_n), g_n any semi simple Lie algebra of rank n, are constructed from arbitrary representations of rank n-1 quantum groups for q a root of unity. Representations which have the maximal dimension and number of free parameters for irreducible representations arise as special cases.


Let \(\mathfrak g\) be a finite-dimensional complex simple Lie algebra, \(\varepsilon\) a primitive \(\ell\)-th root of unity and \(U_ \varepsilon({\mathfrak g})\) the associated `non-restricted' quantum group (i.e. not involving divided powers). It is well known that there are finitely many irreducible \(U_ \varepsilon({\mathfrak g})\)-modules associated to each point of an algebraic variety of dimension \(\dim({\mathfrak g})\), that the generic representation has dimension \(N(\mathfrak g)\), the number of positive roots of \(\mathfrak g\), and that all other irreducible modules have smaller dimension. In this paper, the author gives a procedure for constructing \(U_ \varepsilon({\mathfrak g})\)-modules starting from a \(U_ \varepsilon({\mathfrak k})\)-module, where \(\mathfrak k\) is a diagram subalgebra of \(\mathfrak g\) with rank one less than that of \(\mathfrak g\). The resulting representations are of dimension \(\geq \ell^{N({\mathfrak g}) - N({\mathfrak k})}\), and depend on \(\geq 2(N({\mathfrak g}) - N({\mathfrak k}))\) parameters.











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