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The affine Hecke algebra and its commuting action on tensor powers of the vector representation
Definition
Fix and keep all conventions of The level-zero vector representation, its affinization and the level-one crystal energy: the Cartan datum, the space with (, ), the operators , the classical weights , and the fixed coproduct , , of The Drinfeld–Jimbo formulas define a Hopf algebra. Put and , and let denote the operator "multiply the -th tensor factor by ", so that is invertible with in the -th slot and different commute.
The affine Hecke algebra . For , is the unital -algebra with generators and invertible subject to
The element then satisfies ; for a reduced word put and (well defined by the braid relations).
The two-vector operator and its extension. On residue tensors () set
For a Laurent monomial define, with the swap of the two loop variables,
and extend linearly; the quotient is a Laurent polynomial, so is a well-defined linear endomorphism of . On the generator acts by this operator on the tensor factors and acts on the -th factor as above; this defines the affine Hecke action. The whole action commutes with the derived quantum group (the generators and with in the span of the simple coroots). Each , and therefore , also preserves total loop degree and commutes with the full affine quantum-group action. The individual loops instead satisfy . Products are composed as left operators; right-action notation reverses their order using the anti-involution fixing the generators.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Laurent tensor space and its vector action from The level-zero vector representation, its affinization and the level-one crystal energy, the displayed operators , and the fixed coproduct from The Drinfeld–Jimbo formulas define a Hopf algebra.
The vector basis has with , , , and . In particular , , , and (The level-zero vector representation, its affinization and the level-one crystal energy).
The coproduct is , , , and is coassociative (The Drinfeld–Jimbo formulas define a Hopf algebra).
Verification
Write , let swap them, and set . For an integer , ; for it is , obtained by factoring from the positive formula, and for it is zero. Factoring a common Laurent monomial proves that preserves the Laurent ring. The identity follows by subtracting from . With , and , expansion of gives and . These rational computations are identities on Laurent polynomials because the finite sums show that all the operators preserve that ring.
Let be the displayed residue matrix. For , , , one has and , while on . Hence . The finite braid is also an exact finite residue identity: abbreviate a triple by its order pattern , where , and let , . Applying the three-case matrix gives the following common values: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; . These thirteen patterns exhaust all triples of residues, including repeated residues for , proving the finite braid for every .
For a nonzero color , let be its top vector and its bottom; has eigenvalues there and on every other residue . On the four pairs , the coproduct maps are and respectively. Applying before or after them gives respectively and . For spectator pairs, , under , and , under , with other pairs killed. Since are consecutive residues, every spectator is below both or above both, so the order comparison and the coefficients in are unchanged by these maps. This proves residue commutation in every case. also preserves each total derived toral weight because it only permutes residues.
On the Laurent tensor space the operator is , with acting only on residues. It commutes with on coefficients. Thus by steps 1.1 and 1.2. This proves the quadratic relation on all loop powers, rather than only on residue tensors. Off-adjacent operators commute because their residue matrices and divided differences involve disjoint positions.
For , and the derived torals act by constant residue matrices and commute with scalar Laurent multiplication and the coefficient operators . Together with step 1.3 and this proves their commutation with on every Laurent tensor. In particular the correct extension of a commutator is , since the divided-difference terms cancel; it is not a formula with instead of . More generally step 1.1 gives for every Laurent tensor , by applying the Leibniz identity to its residue coefficients.
For three adjacent loop variables put , , , and . Then and , the latter following on multiplying by . Write . Expand with every coefficient on the left, using . After using and , the coefficients at are respectively , , , , , and . For example the coefficient at is ; the longest coefficient is . Hence all coefficients vanish. Clearing the three differences gives the identity in the original Laurent tensor space, whose injection into its rational coefficient space is faithful; the operators already preserve the Laurent space by step 1.1. This proves the full braid, with no finite-loop truncation assumption.
The loop multiplication operators are invertible and commute. From step 1.1 and the extension formula, for one has ; for one has , and for there is no correction. These identities hold on every tensor by the divided-difference Leibniz formula. In particular and . Therefore by step 2.1. These are precisely the Bernstein and off-adjacent loop relations in the Definition. Finally satisfies , and equivalently .
For the affine color use the ordered Laurent basis , , through . For , the extension formula gives and ; also . On the other pairs the residue formula is unchanged. Thus on is exactly the same three-case matrix in the order , and its extension remains the formula in step 2.2. On this basis , , with all other images zero, because and . Their toral eigenvalues are on and on spectators. Consequently precisely the finite commutation calculation of step 1.3 applies to color , followed by the constant-matrix Laurent argument of step 2.2. This proves all affine-color commutators on arbitrary positive and negative loop powers.
On two factors preserves total residue weight and total loop degree: swaps loop powers and has total degree zero, since its numerator is multiplied by and divided by . Hence it commutes with for every full toral , including . Each commutes with and derived torals by [F1], but increases total loop degree by one, giving . For , the iterated coproduct of is the sum of terms , and that of is the sum . The two terms in the adjacent slots combine into their two-factor coproduct; a term outside those slots has either or there. Steps 2.2 and 5.1 and the toral commutation therefore prove for every full generator . Individual commute with the derived action for the same slotwise reason.
The quadratic, braid, distant, loop and Bernstein identities prove the displayed affine Hecke action on the entire Laurent tensor space. The finite Hecke operators commute with the full quantum-group action; their products are well defined by reduced words and their sum has the same commutation and total-degree properties. The entire affine Hecke action, including each individual loop, commutes with the derived action, with the degree covariance of step 6.1. This establishes exactly the scope and normalization claimed in the Definition.
Remarks
The loops have degree one, whereas and have degree zero. The action uses the fixed coproduct throughout; flipping to the opposite channel is a separate convention change. At , is the negative flip, including its Laurent coefficients.
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Sources
- Bernard Leclerc, Fock space representations (author-hosted complete 38-page treatment) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Masaki Kashiwara, Tetsuji Miwa and Eugene Stern, Decomposition of q-deformed Fock spaces, arXiv:q-alg/9508006 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Kashiwara-Miwa-Petersen-Yung, Perfect crystals and q-deformed Fock spaces (standard reference, not scraped)