Spiders and Generalized Confluence

Publication date 27 September 2018

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37)

Abstract: Given a semisimple Lie algebra

m a t h f r a k g

, we can represent invariants of tensor products of fundamental representations of the quantum enveloping algebra

U_{q} (m a t h f r a k g)

using particular directed graphs called webs. In particular webs are trivalent graphs (with leaves) whose edges are labeled by fundamental representations. Picking generating morphisms and relators we can construct a presentation of the representation category. We examine the properties of this presentation in the case of rank

3

spiders and certain higher rank non-simple spiders. In particular, we prove a PBW-type theorem in the case of

m a t h f r a k {s l}_{4}

,

(m a t h f r a k {s l}_{2})^{n}

, and

m a t h f r a k {s l}_{2} o p l u s m a t h f r a k {s l}_{3}

and also give counterexamples showing that no such result is true in the case of

(m a t h f r a k {s l}_{2})^{2} o p l u s m a t h f r a k {s l}_{3}

and

m a t h f r a k {s l}_{3} o p l u s m a t h f r a k {s l}_{3}

. Nevertheless we rephrase the PBW-type theorem as a degeneration of a particular spectral sequence, and prove that this spectral sequence converges on the second page for

(m a t h f r a k {s l}_{2})^{n} o p l u s m a t h f r a k {s l}_{3}

, giving generalized and weaker form of confluence. We then apply the above results to the geometry of the Euclidean building in the case of

m a t h f r a k {s l}_{4}

and

(m a t h f r a k {s l}_{2})^{n}

. In particular, we prove an upper triangularity result with respect to the geometric Satake basis for

m a t h f r a k {s l}_{4}

, improving the results of Fontaine in cite{fontaine:generating}. Finally we give a geometric interpretation of webs as minimal combinatorial disks in the Euclidean building, reinterpreting many of the combinatorial results of paper in geometric terms.

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