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Signed Quiver Flag Convolution And Klr Ext Realization

1 · Prerequisites

2 · Summary

Objective. This page realizes the signed KLR algebra of a finite loopless quiver, with arbitrary parallel arrows and arrows in both directions, as the equivariant Ext algebra of a family of quiver-flag incidence complexes, over any characteristic-zero coefficient field. For a dimension vector β and a word ν of content β, the total space Xν⊂E×Fν of stable full flags is a smooth vector bundle over the product of complete flag varieties, with πν:Xν→E projective and dν=dim⁡CXν; the normalized complexes πν!k[dν] and their fiber products Zη,ν=Xη×EXν carry an oriented correspondence convolution, and the diagonal, Chern and explicitly normalized relative-position classes generate it (Quiver full-flag incidence varieties and signed geometric KLR generators). The relative-position strata of the incidence varieties form an even Borel–Moore filtration whose closure classes are a free basis over the first-coordinate polynomial corners, torus localization makes the action on the shifted polynomial summands faithful, and reduced flag chains with weighted arrow entries give triangular generation by word idempotents, dots and crossings (Relative-position incidence strata give a faithful geometric PBW basis); the geometric generators then satisfy every relation of the intrinsic signed presentation — the equal-color divided difference, the distinct-color Euler powers, and the multiedge braid correction with the native sign (Quiver-flag convolution generators satisfy the signed KLR relations) — so that the presentation is the equivariant Ext algebra with the shifted product, without any semisimplicity, purity or decomposition hypothesis (Signed KLR algebra is the equivariant Ext algebra of quiver-flag complexes). Only relative-position incidence strata are paved; fibers of πν over arbitrary representations are not addressed. The companion page computes the equal-color nil-Hecke case and the smallest two-direction multiedge braid.

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4 · Definitions, theorems and proofs

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Quiver full-flag incidence varieties and signed geometric KLR generators

Definition

Assume the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice) as inherited from the equivariant constructible, flag-variety and line-bundle suppliers below. Fix a finite loopless quiver Γ with vertex set I, with hij≥0 arrows i→j for i≠j (parallel arrows and pairs of opposite arrows are allowed, and there are no loops), a dimension vector β∈NI, and a field k of characteristic zero. Put V=⨁iVi with dim⁡CVi=βi, G=∏iGL(Vi) and E=⨁h:i→jHom⁡(Vi,Vj).

Incidence varieties. For a word ν=(ν1,…,νm) with content β (so m=∑iβi) let Fν be the variety of increasing full I-graded complete flags 0=F0⊂⋯⊂Fm=V whose successive quotient Fr/Fr−1 is concentrated in color νr, and set Xν={(x,F)∈E×Fν: xh(Fir)⊆Fjr for all h:i→j and all r},πν(x,F)=x. Because Γ is loopless the stability condition is equivalent to xh(Fir)⊆Fjr−1 for all r, so on a split flag exactly the matrix entries Hom⁡(Da,Db) with a>b are allowed; accordingly dν=∑iβi(βi−1)2+∑a>bhνaνb=dim⁡CFν+rank⁡(Xν→Fν)=dim⁡CXν, and Lν=πν!k[dν]∈DG,cb(E;k) lies in the equivariant constructible derived category of Equivariant constructible derived category of complex varieties. Define Zη,ν=Xη×EXν with first coordinate the categorical source, and write A=⨁η,νExt⁡G(Lη,Lν) for the convolution algebra, so that eηAeν=Ext⁡G(Lη,Lν); for homogeneous a:Lη→Lν[n] and b:Lν→Lρ[m] the algebra product is the opposite-composition product a∗b=b[n]∘a, and Ext⁡ degree n is the convolution component of BM degree dη+dν−n (Equivariant Borel–Moore homology and oriented correspondence convolution).

Geometric generators. In the equivariant BM convolution algebra, with the standard positive complex orientation, define the idempotents eν=[ΔXν]; the dots xreν=(ΔXν)∗(xr∩[Xν]) for xr=c1G(Fr/Fr−1) (First Chern class of tensor, dual, and conjugate lines); and, for the simple transposition sr, the standard fundamental class [Csrν,ν] of the closure of the relative-position-sr stratum in Zsrν,ν, together with σreν=(−1)dsrν−dim⁡CCsrν,ν[Csrν,ν] and τreν=σreν if νr=νr+1, while τreν=(−1)hνrνr+1σreν if νr≠νr+1. This is a generator normalization, not a change of the BM orientation: for distinct colors σr=(−1)hij[C]standard and τr=[C]standard, while for equal colors σr=τr=−[C]standard.

The intrinsic signed presentation. Define SΓ(β) as the free unital k-algebra on word idempotents eν, dots xr and crossings τr (1≤r<m) modulo the relations: eνeν′=δνν′eν with ∑νeν=1; the dots commute and xreν=eνxr; τreν=esrντr; τr2eν=Qνrνr+1(xr,xr+1)eν, where aii=2, aij=−hij−hji for i≠j, Qii=0 and Qij(u,v)=(−1)hij(u−v)hij+hji; far crossings commute; the distinct-color dot slides (τrxt−xsr(t)τr)eν=0 for every 1≤t≤m when νr≠νr+1 (in particular τrxreν=xr+1τreν and τrxr+1eν=xrτreν); the equal-color mixed relations (τrxr−xr+1τr)eν=eν and (τrxr+1−xrτr)eν=−eν when νr=νr+1; other dots commute with τr; and, for 1≤r<m−1, the braid relation (τr+1τrτr+1−τrτr+1τr)eν=0 unless νr=νr+2, in which case it equals [Qνrνr+1(xr,xr+1)−Qνrνr+1(xr+2,xr+1)]eν/(xr+2−xr). Grade SΓ(β) by deg⁡eν=0, deg⁡xreν=2, deg⁡τreν=−aνrνr+1; every defining relation is homogeneous for this grading, including the polynomial braid quotient: in the outer-equal-color case the two distinct-color outer crossings contribute 2(hij+hji) and the middle equal-color crossing contributes −2, matching the degree 2(hij+hji−1) of the correction.

Well-formedness. The smooth-flag incidence lemma Stable-flag incidence spaces admit the oriented proper correspondence calculus gives that Xν→Fν is a smooth complex algebraic vector bundle, that πν is projective and hence proper, and that the displayed formula computes dim⁡CXν; Fν=∏iFlag⁡(Vi) is smooth projective (The variety of complete flags of a finite-dimensional vector space is smooth projective). The polynomial model HG∙(Xν;k)=k[x1,…,xm], with shifted avatar Pν=HG∙(Xν;k)[dν] in which the unit has degree −dν, and the fact that the displayed geometric classes realize the stated graded relations are discharged by Relative-position incidence strata give a faithful geometric PBW basis ↗ and Quiver-flag convolution generators satisfy the signed KLR relations ↗; these two results are recorded in justified_by rather than in deps because both depend on this definition. The listed relations define a quotient of a free algebra, so SΓ(β) is well posed as a graded algebra, and the geometric generator normalization introduces no further choice: the Axiom of Choice is consumed exactly through the AC-declared suppliers named above, while the quiver, word and sign data are finite. This specialized presentation is internal and does not replace the generic KLR definition.

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Relative-position incidence strata give a faithful geometric PBW basis

Statement

Assume the Axiom of Choice as inherited. In the setting of Quiver full-flag incidence varieties and signed geometric KLR generators, the convolution algebra A=⨁η,νExt⁡G(Lη,Lν) acts by correspondence composition on the direct sum P=⨁νPν of shifted polynomial summands Pν=HG∙(Xν;k)[dν], where the unit of Pν has degree −dν and every xr has degree 2, and this action is faithful; here HG∙(Xν;k)=k[x1,…,xm] with m=∑iβi, the variables being the classes xr=c1G(Fr/Fr−1) of the preceding definition. Fix one reduced expression of every w∈Sm and let τweν be the corresponding product of elementary crossings of Quiver full-flag incidence varieties and signed geometric KLR generators. Then the elements x1c1⋯xmcmτweν with cr≥0 form a k-basis of A; equivalently, the τweν form a free basis of A over the first-coordinate polynomial corners k[x1,…,xm], the polynomials acting by left multiplication. In particular the word idempotents, the dots and the elementary crossings generate A. Only relative-position incidence strata are paved; nothing is asserted about arbitrary stable-flag fibers of πν.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the Axiom of Choice; a characteristic-zero field k; a finite loopless quiver Γ, a dimension vector β and a word ν with m=∑iβi as in Quiver full-flag incidence varieties and signed geometric KLR generators; the incidence varieties Xν,Fν,Zη,ν, the objects Lν=πν!k[dν], the algebra A with its opposite-composition product and corner degrees, and the module P=⨁νHG∙(Xν;k)[dν].

[F1]

Assume AC. Equivariant Borel–Moore homology and oriented correspondence convolution supplies the convolution product a∗b=h∗ΔXj!(a⊠b) with the refined oriented middle-diagonal operation on arbitrary closed supports, the corner degree di+dj−p, and the normalized diagonal classes; no transversality of the fiber products is assumed.

[F2]

Assume AC. Constructible six functors, proper base change and normalized equivariant duality supplies in DG,cb the adjunctions f∗⊣Rf∗ and Rf!⊣f!, support localization, the projection formula and trace, proper base change, the normalized dualizing object with ωXG∣X=ωX and ωXG≃kX[2d] for smooth complex d-dimensional X, and proper f with Rf!=Rf∗.

[F3]

Assume AC. Stable-flag incidence spaces admit the oriented proper correspondence calculus supplies that Xν→Fν is a complex algebraic vector bundle with smooth total space, that πν:Xν→E is projective, that every middle-forgetting projection is proper, and that the oriented refined operations exist in every corner, with dν=dim⁡CXν; Bν=Fν=∏iFlag⁡(Vi) is a product of smooth projective flag varieties. Its Statement also supplies that the preceding Ext and product theorems apply to the normalized Lν in every corner; this supplies the Ext/BM identification used here.

[F4]

Assume AC. Complex-oriented diagonal Thom classes realize exceptional exchange on supports realizes the refined operation as cap product with the positive middle-diagonal Thom class, lowers Borel–Moore degree by twice the complex dimension, is compatible with ordered iterated diagonals, and for a complex vector bundle expresses zero-section self-intersection as cap product with its oriented Euler class.

[F5]

Leray–Hirsch module isomorphism: for a Serre fibration F→E→pB over a path-connected CW complex and finitely many homogeneous classes restricting to an R-basis on every fiber, Φ:⨁iH∗−∣ei∣(B;R)→H∗(E;R), (ai)↦∑ip∗ai⌣ei, is an H∗(B;R)-module isomorphism, for every commutative unital ring R.

[F6]

The complex tautological Euler class restricts to the projective-fiber generator: for a numerable complex rank-n bundle E→B with n≥2 over a paracompact Hausdorff CW complex, the tautological Euler class restricts to a generator of H2 of each projective fiber and 1,x,…,xn−1 is an integral cohomology basis of the fiber, with reductions a basis over every Fp.

[F7]

Schubert cells give the stable Grassmannian CW structure: the Schubert strata give a finite CW structure on each finite Grassmannian Gr⁡n(FN), the standard inclusions are cellular, and every finite-dimensional subcomplex is contained in a finite stage.

[F8]

First Chern class of tensor, dual, and conjugate lines: for complex line bundles over a path-connected CW base, c1(Hom⁡(L,M))=c1(M)−c1(L) and c1(L∗)=−c1(L); in the split-flag model this gives each arrow entry Hom⁡(Da,Db) the weight χb−χa.

[F9]

Top Chern class equals Euler class of the underlying real bundle: for a numerable complex rank-n bundle over a path-connected CW complex, cn(E)=e(ER) in H2n(B;Z) with the complex orientation.

[F10]

Cartesian simplicial sheaves model actual equivariant derived Hom supplies finite general linear Stiefel resolutions and their bounded Hom comparisons. For a product of GL1, these are products of nonzero vector spaces with quotients products of projective spaces. Algebraically constructible sheaves have finite compatible stratified and local cochain models supplies finite CW-type models for the quasi-projective approximation spaces and supports.

[A1]

The Axiom of Choice is consumed exactly through [F1]–[F4], which declare it for their injective-resolution, duality and equivariant-descent constructions; the finite symmetric-group, Bruhat-order, row-echelon and Euler-product computations below are choice-free (The Axiom of Choice).

Proof

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For a:Lη→Lν[n] and f:Lν→ωEG[m], set a⋅f=f[n]∘a. Associativity of composition makes ⨁νExt⁡G(Lν,ωEG) a left module for the opposite-composition product. Adjunction and dualizing transitivity [F2] give Ext⁡Gn(Lν,ωEG)=Hdν−nBM,G(Xν;k)=HGdν+n(Xν;k), giving the stated shift; the diagonal and Chern cap classes act by identity and cup product. Fiber scaling contracts the vector bundle Xν equivariantly onto Fν=G/Bν. Here Bν is the product of triangular stabilizers, and Bν/T is its unitriangular group, homeomorphic to a complex affine space through its matrix entries. The Borel maps EG/T→EG/Bν have that contractible fiber, so pullback identifies HG(Fν;k) with HT(pt;k). This comparison can be made on the finite resolutions [F10], whose fiber cohomology is k in degree zero: the pullback is an isomorphism by the stalkwise fiber computation and [F2]. For T=(C∗)m, the rank-one resolutions in [F10] have bases (CPN−1)m. Repeated [F5] and [F6] give the basis of products of tautological powers with each exponent less than N; all degrees stabilize as N increases [F7, F10]. Thus the stable ring is k[x1,…,xm], with the flag quotient lines corresponding to the individual torus characters. This proves the polynomial model without asserting a polynomial extension of HG(pt;k).

2.1F1F2F3F8F10step 1.1construct

Relative positions can be computed by simultaneous echelon reduction: for two full flags the integers dim⁡(Fa∩F′b) determine a permutation matrix, its entry at (a,b) being the second difference of these integers. Splitting the intersections successively chooses one line for each nonzero entry. Grading requires each such line to have the same color in both flags, exactly the condition wν=η. Adapted bases then show that all flag pairs with that matrix form one G-orbit. Their stabilizer P consists of matrices triangular in both orders: its diagonal is T, and its permitted off-diagonal entries form a contractible unipotent radical; P/T is an affine space. Over this orbit the stable-arrow condition is the associated vector bundle with fiber UF∩UF′, since stability is a set of linear zero-entry conditions in each adapted basis. The projection of the orbit to the first flag has the affine echelon cell given by the off-diagonal entries allowed by the second order modulo those allowed by both. Thus the stratum is smooth, its equivariant cohomology is HP(pt;k)=HT(pt;k)=k[x1,…,xm] by the contractible-fiber argument of step 1.1, and its equivariant BM module is that ring shifted by twice the stratum's complex dimension. Its generator is its positive fundamental class, and the first flag's quotient Chern classes give the displayed generators. Each arrow entry has weight χb−χa [F8], with its full multiplicity.

3.1F1F2F4step 2.1

The conditions dim⁡(Fa∩F′b)≥q are closed rank conditions on the flag pair (vanishing of minors of Fa→V/F′b). They give the Bruhat lower unions of the echelon permutation strata; pulling them back to the incidence space gives closed unions of its strata. Choose a linear extension of that finite order. The localization sequence [F2] for each successive closed union has even-degree quotient by step 2.1. Starting with the empty union, induction shows that odd groups vanish and each even-degree sequence is short exact. The closure class of the newly adjoined stratum restricts to its fundamental class. First-coordinate Chern multiplication lifts every polynomial multiple of that generator; these lifts split the sequence as modules over the first-coordinate ring. Consequently the closure classes form a free polynomial basis in each corner. Closure classes here are indexed by the relative position w as well as the corner, even if several permutations have wν=η.

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Fix a diagonal torus and refine each orbit by echelon cells of the first flag. A cell has a unique fixed coordinate flag and a section given by an ordered product of elementary unipotent matrices. Acting by that section trivializes the orbit's affine echelon fiber and the common stable-arrow vector bundle. Torus conjugation scales each echelon coordinate by a root character, and each arrow coordinate by χb−χa. All are nonzero: flag coordinates involve distinct lines of one color, and looplessness makes arrow coordinates join lines of distinct colors. This gives affine representation cells with one fixed point. Ordering first by the closed relative-position filtration and then by the closed echelon filtration of the first flag gives a closed filtration by these cells; the same construction applies to Xν. On each cell the equivariant BM group is a shift of ST=HT(pt;k), and point pushforward multiplies its generator by the product of its nonzero weights, by [F4, F9]. Induction through the closed/open sequences therefore proves freeness over ST, and proves that inverting all these weights makes fixed-point pushforward an isomorphism. The fixed locus has zero arrow coordinates and all coordinate flag pairs. Refined middle self-intersection gives [p,q]∗[q,t]=eu(TqXmiddle)[p,t]; other middle fixed points give disjoint supports. Every displayed Euler class is invertible in this localization.

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We first justify passage from G to T. Put R=HG(pt;k) and ST=HT(pt;k). For Y=Xν or Zη,ν, the approximation of EG×BνY→EG×GY is a proper flag bundle with fiber G/Bν; replacing Bν by T does not change cohomology by its contractible quotient. On its projective-bundle tower the monomials in quotient Chern classes with successive exponents 0≤cj<βi−j+1 form a fiber basis by [F5, F6]. Include the unit monomial. The maps defined by these global classes ⨁jk[−∣ej∣]→Rp∗k are isomorphisms on every stalk by proper base change, hence are isomorphisms. Applying the projection formula to the normalized dualizing complex proves the same decomposition for BM groups, not only constant-coefficient cohomology. Applying it also to Y=pt shows that ST is free over R on this basis, and gives HTBM(Y)=ST⊗RHGBM(Y) with the normalized dimension shifts. These comparisons commute with convolution and its module action by [F2, F4]; in particular restriction is injective and the T module is generated over ST by the G module. Thus if a∈A kills P, its restriction kills the entire T module. After weight localization, expand it in the fixed-pair basis of step 3.2 and apply it to each fixed-point basis vector [q]. The result is ∑pcpq eu(TqXmiddle)[p]=0, so all coefficients vanish. Freeness over ST makes localization injective, and injectivity of restriction then gives a=0. Finite CW-type models and stabilization for all these comparisons are [F10].

4.2F4F8step 2.1step 3.2construct

Consider a reduced adjacent-transposition word for w. In ordinary full-flag coordinates, its elementary flag chains are a tower of projective-line bundles: at a step only the intermediate subspace between two fixed successive subspaces can vary. The open echelon chart has one parameter for each inversion of w; successive pivot elimination recovers those parameters uniquely from an endpoint pair in position w. This follows inductively when appending a length-increasing swap, which introduces a previously uncrossed pair of pivot lines. The chart is dense in the irreducible tower, so its proper endpoint image is the closure of the position-w orbit. Consequently every chain, including the graded chains in our elementary supports, has endpoint position ≤w, and an endpoint pair in position w has a unique chain of this fixed reduced type. For a graded endpoint pair the recovered intermediate flags remain graded, since each pivot elimination only combines lines of the same color. To compute the top coefficient, use a split endpoint pair in this open stratum. Along a reduced chain each labeled pair crosses at most once: word length equals the number of inverted pairs, since an adjacent swap changes that number by one, and adjacent sorting realizes that lower bound. Thus, for any fixed arrow entry, its allowedness indicators A,B,C∈{0,1} at three length-additive stages are monotone. They satisfy min⁡(A,C)+B=min⁡(A,B)+min⁡(B,C), proving the equality of arrow-weight multisets in (U1∩U3)⊕U2 and (U1∩U2)⊕(U2∩U3), separately for each of the hij copies. For the flag coordinates, the unique-chain echelon chart cancels the intermediate flag tangent coordinates against the refined middle diagonal; its remaining coordinates are exactly those of the endpoint orbit. Taking positive tangent Euler products therefore gives eu(Cu)eu(Cv)=eu(Cuv)eu(Xmiddle) at the open fixed pair for length-additive stages. By the fixed-pair formula of step 3.2 the top coefficient is 1 for standard classes. The generator normalizations multiply it only by signs, so the top coefficient of τweν is ±1.

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The expansion of τweν in the closure-class basis is supported in positions ≤w and has coefficient ±1 at w by step 4.2. The finite triangular matrix is invertible over the first-coordinate polynomial ring, so these products form a free polynomial basis. Expanding each polynomial coefficient in its unique dot-monomial basis gives precisely the displayed k-basis; no crossing relation is needed for this argument. Each basis element is a product of word idempotents, dots and elementary crossings, with τideν=eν for the empty crossing product, so these classes generate A. For β=0 there is one empty word, one point and one unit; the same argument has an empty list of variables and crossings. Only relative-position incidence strata were used. AC is inherited through [A1].

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Quiver-flag convolution generators satisfy the signed KLR relations

Statement

Assume the Axiom of Choice as inherited. In the setting of Quiver full-flag incidence varieties and signed geometric KLR generators, the geometric classes eν, xr and τr satisfy every relation of the intrinsic signed presentation SΓ(β). They act on the shifted polynomial summands of Relative-position incidence strata give a faithful geometric PBW basis by eν-projection, multiplication by xr, the equal-color formula τr(f)=(f−srf)/(xr−xr+1) when νr=νr+1, and the distinct-color formula τr(f)=(xr−xr+1)hijsr(f) for i=νr≠j=νr+1 on the ν-summand with values in the srν-summand, where sr simultaneously swaps the two variables and the two letters. With the unit of Pν in degree −dν and the variables in degree 2, the generators eν, xr, τr are homogeneous of degrees 0, 2, −aνrνr+1. Consequently the generator assignment is a graded k-algebra homomorphism SΓ(β)→A to the BM convolution algebra.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the Axiom of Choice; a characteristic-zero field k; a finite loopless quiver Γ, a dimension vector β, a word ν of length m, the incidence varieties Xν,Fν,Zη,ν, the algebra A with generators eν,xr,τr and the intrinsic signed presentation SΓ(β) of Quiver full-flag incidence varieties and signed geometric KLR generators, and the faithful module P=⨁νHG∙(Xν;k)[dν].

[F1]

Assume AC. Quiver full-flag incidence varieties and signed geometric KLR generators fixes the generators as the diagonals eν=[ΔXν], the dots xreν=(ΔXν)∗(xr∩[Xν]) with xr=c1G(Fr/Fr−1), and the normalized elementary classes σreν=(−1)dsrν−dim⁡CCsrν,ν[Csrν,ν], τr=σr for equal colors and τr=(−1)hijσr for distinct colors, lists the relations of SΓ(β), and defines the grading deg⁡eν=0, deg⁡xreν=2, deg⁡τreν=−aνrνr+1.

[F2]

Assume AC. Relative-position incidence strata give a faithful geometric PBW basis supplies the module structure of A on P and proves that the action is faithful, so operator identities valid on all of P are identities in A.

[F3]

Assume AC. Stable-flag incidence spaces admit the oriented proper correspondence calculus supplies the oriented proper correspondence calculus on the incidence spaces, including complex-oriented flag-bundle operations and Euler self-intersection. The elementary correspondences and their quotient bundles are determined below from the incidence equations.

[F4]

Assume AC. Complex-oriented diagonal Thom classes realize exceptional exchange on supports computes supported convolution as cap product with the refined middle-diagonal Thom class and identifies zero-section self-intersection with the oriented Euler class, compatibly with ordered iterated diagonals.

[F5]

First Chern class of tensor, dual, and conjugate lines: for complex lines over a path-connected CW base, c1(L⊗M)=c1(L)+c1(M), c1(L∗)=−c1(L); in the split flag model the arrow entry Hom⁡(Da,Db) has first Chern class χb−χa.

[F6]

Top Chern class equals Euler class of the underlying real bundle: for a numerable complex rank-n bundle over a path-connected CW complex, cn(E)=e(ER) with the complex orientation.

[A1]

The Axiom of Choice is consumed exactly through [F1]–[F4], which declare it for their equivariant-descent and duality constructions; the polynomial identities, divisibility and degree bookkeeping below are choice-free (The Axiom of Choice).

Proof

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By [F2] the diagonal classes are orthogonal idempotents with sum 1, acting as the summand projections on P. The dot classes act by cup product, so xreν=eνxr and all dots commute. We compute the crossings independently before using their dot slides.

1.2F1F2F3F4F5F6algebra

For adjacent distinct colors i=νr, j=νr+1, forgetting the order of the two graded lines identifies the two flag bases: the intermediate graded subspaces are uniquely recovered. In adapted bases every stable-arrow condition agrees except for the entries between these lines. The common stable-arrow space sets both directions' entries to zero, so its quotient in the first-coordinate space Xsrν consists of hij copies of Hom⁡(Dr+1,Dr); its dimension is dsrν−hij. At a split fixed flag its positive tangent Euler factor is (xr−xr+1)hij by [F5, F6]. The fixed-point action formula established in [F2] gives this quotient Euler factor times sr(f): the Euler factors of the common space cancel between its fundamental class and the output's fundamental class. Thus the standard class acts by (xr−xr+1)hijsr, σr multiplies it by (−1)hij, and τr cancels that sign. Composing with the reverse crossing gives τr2eν=(xr+1−xr)hij(xr−xr+1)hjieν=Qij(xr,xr+1)eν. Moreover MCsrMf=MsrfMCsr for every polynomial f, proving all distinct-color dot slides, including both adjacent ones; other dots are fixed by sr.

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If the adjacent colors agree, forgetting Fr gives a projective-line bundle: all arrow stability conditions at that stage follow from the neighboring stages, since there are no loops and the other colors' subspaces do not change across these two steps. Thus Xν is the pullback of the stable-arrow bundle on the partial flag base, and C=Xν×XpartialXν has dimension dν+1. The standard class acts by pullback after integration along that projective line. At the fixed point whose tautological line has class xr, its tangent is Hom⁡(Dr,Dr+1), of Euler class xr+1−xr; at the other fixed point the Euler class is reversed. The cellwise localization calculation of [F2] therefore gives f/(xr+1−xr)+srf/(xr−xr+1)=(srf−f)/(xr−xr+1) for the standard class. The sign (−1)dν−(dν+1)=−1 makes τr=Dr=(1−sr)/(xr−xr+1). The numerator vanishes when the variables coincide, so division is polynomial. Drf is symmetric in these variables, giving Dr2=0; expansion gives DrMxr−Mxr+1Dr=1 and DrMxr+1−MxrDr=−1. Unaffected variables commute with Dr.

2.1F1step 1.2step 1.3algebra

Disjoint crossings commute, since neither their variables nor their colors affect the other crossing. For three distinct colors both triple products cross the same three labeled pairs exactly once with the same oriented factors, so they coincide. Write x=xr, y=xr+1, z=xr+2 and D1=(1−s1)/(x−y), D2=(1−s2)/(y−z) in the three-variable calculation. For colors (i,i,j) and a=hij, the two products are D2Mgs1s2 and Mgs1s2D1, where g=(x−y)a(x−z)a. Since g is symmetric in y,z, D2Mg=MgD2; also D2s1s2=s1s2D1, so the products agree. For (j,i,i) put b=hji and g′=(y−z)b(x−z)b. The products are Mg′s2s1D2 and D1Mg′s2s1; symmetry in x,y and D1s2s1=s2s1D2 again give equality. Relabeling i,j covers every exactly-adjacent repeated-color pattern. For three equal colors, direct expansion of either D2D1D2 or D1D2D1, using sMf=Msfs, gives ∑w∈S3(−1)ℓ(w)w/((x−y)(x−z)(y−z)) in the skew group algebra. Thus its braid difference is zero as well.

3.1F1step 1.2step 1.3

The outer-equal multiedge correction. It remains to consider colors i,j,i with i≠j; put a=hij, b=hji, N=a+b, x=xr, y=xr+1, z=xr+2. Expanding the two triple products in the skew group algebra using step 1.2 for the distinct-color crossings and step 1.3 for the middle equal-color crossing gives τ2τ1τ2eν=[(y−z)a(z−y)b−(y−z)a(x−y)bw0]/(x−z) and τ1τ2τ1eν=[(x−y)b(y−x)a−(x−y)b(y−z)aw0]/(x−z) with w0 the longest permutation; the permutation terms agree and cancel, and the difference of the two remaining terms is [Qij(x,y)−Qij(z,y)]/(z−x), which is the stated correction with full multiplicities a,b. When a=b=0 the correction is zero, and when i=j the nil-Hecke case of step 2.1 supplies the zero correction, so every relation of SΓ(β) of braid type holds.

4.1F1step 2.1step 3.1

Homogeneity of the generators. For distinct colors, the operator τr raises the unshifted polynomial degree by 2hij and changes the summand by dν−dsrν=hji−hij, so on the shifted summands it is homogeneous of degree 2hij+hji−hij=hij+hji=−aij; for equal colors the divided difference has shifted degree −2=−aii, and the dots and idempotents have degrees 2 and 0. Each defining relation of [F1] is therefore homogeneous: the square relation has both sides of degree −2aij on the ν-summand, the mixed relations have both sides of degree 0, and the braid correction has degree 2(hij+hji−1) on the outer-equal-color summand, matching the degree of the two triple products, which is −aij−aji−2=2(hij+hji)−2. Hence the assignment is graded.

5.1A1F2step 4.1∎

Transfer to the convolution algebra. The displayed operator identities of steps 1.2–3.1 hold on every shifted polynomial summand, and by step 1.1 the assignment eν↦eν, xr↦xr, τr↦τr respects all remaining relations; since by [F2] the action of A on P is faithful, the identities hold in A itself, so the assignment is a well-defined graded k-algebra homomorphism SΓ(β)→A. The Axiom of Choice entered only through [A1].

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Signed KLR algebra is the equivariant Ext algebra of quiver-flag complexes

Statement

Assume the Axiom of Choice as inherited. Let Γ, β and k be as in Quiver full-flag incidence varieties and signed geometric KLR generators. There is a unique graded k-algebra isomorphism SΓ(β)→ ∼ Ext⁡G∙(⨁νπν!k[dν],⨁νπν!k[dν]) sending eν, xr, τr to the diagonal, Chern and normalized elementary classes of Quiver full-flag incidence varieties and signed geometric KLR generators, where the Ext algebra carries the shifted multiplication a∗b=b[n]∘a for homogeneous a of degree n. On the (η,ν) component, Ext degree n corresponds to BM degree dη+dν−n. No semisimplicity, purity or decomposition theorem is used, and finite-dimensionality of the total Ext algebra is not assumed.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: the Axiom of Choice; a characteristic-zero field k; a finite loopless quiver Γ, a dimension vector β and a word ν as in Quiver full-flag incidence varieties and signed geometric KLR generators; the objects Lν=πν!k[dν] on E, the incidence varieties Zη,ν, and the intrinsic signed presentation SΓ(β) with its generators eν,xr,τr.

[F1]

Assume AC. Quiver full-flag incidence varieties and signed geometric KLR generators fixes the corner identification eηAeν=Ext⁡G(Lη,Lν) with the opposite-composition product a∗b=b[n]∘a, the degree dictionary Ext degree n ↔ BM degree dη+dν−n, and the geometric generators and presentation relations.

[F2]

Assume AC. Quiver-flag convolution generators satisfy the signed KLR relations shows that the assignment eν↦eν, xr↦xr, τr↦τr respects every defining relation of SΓ(β) and defines a graded k-algebra homomorphism SΓ(β)→A.

[F3]

Assume AC. Relative-position incidence strata give a faithful geometric PBW basis exhibits the elements x1c1⋯xmcmτweν, for one fixed reduced expression of every w∈Sm, as a k-basis of A, and shows that the word idempotents, dots and elementary crossings generate A.

[F4]

Assume AC. Proper-pushforward Ext is equivariant Borel–Moore homology of the fiber product supplies, for proper equivariant maps between the stated finite-type complex varieties with smooth pure-dimensional sources, the natural cornerwise isomorphisms Φijr:Hom⁡(Li,Lj[r])→Hdi+dj−rBM,G(Zij;k), compatible with Borel approximation.

[F5]

Assume AC. Verdier-duality identification intertwines Yoneda product and oriented convolution identifies the shifted composition product with the convolution product: Φikr+s(β[r]∘α)=Φijr(α)∗Φjks(β), with the right-hand product the external-product, refined middle-diagonal Thom intersection and proper pushforward of Equivariant Borel–Moore homology and oriented correspondence convolution, not a product transported by definition from Ext.

[A1]

The Axiom of Choice is consumed exactly through [F1]–[F5], whose constructions declare it for injective resolutions, equivariant descent and duality; the finite symmetric-group sorting and reduction arguments below are choice-free (The Axiom of Choice).

Proof

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1.1F1F2given

By [F2] the assignment on generators respects every defining relation of the presentation of [F1], hence induces a graded k-algebra homomorphism Φ:SΓ(β)→A. The generators generate SΓ(β) by definition of a free presentation, so any two graded algebra homomorphisms agreeing on eν,xr,τr agree everywhere; this is the asserted uniqueness.

1.2givenalgebraconstruct

We establish the needed adjacent-transposition word reduction explicitly. Put tj=sm−1⋯sj for 1≤j<m, and tm=1. Every permutation has a unique canonical expression qtj, where q fixes m and j is the position sent to m. Inductively choose the same expression for q in Sm−1. Right multiplication by si is absorbed using tjsi=sitj if i<j−1, tjsj−1=tj−1, tjsj=tj+1, and tjsi=si−1tj if i>j. The first formula commutes disjoint letters; the second appends one letter; the third cancels the final equal pair; the fourth follows by commuting si left until a single braid move changes sisi−1si to si−1sisi−1, then commuting si−1 past higher-index letters. For tm=1 the generator lies in Sm−1 or equals tm−1. Recursively absorbing the resulting left generator into q converts any word into its canonical expression using only braid moves and adjacent-pair removals, never increasing length. The canonical length is the inversion number: tj contributes the m−j inversions involving m, and q contributes exactly the inversions on the remaining entries. Every word has at least that length because a swap changes inversion number by one. Therefore reduced words normalize using braid moves alone and any nonreduced word exposes a removable equal pair during normalization. Two reduced words for the same permutation are braid-connected through their common canonical word. The cases m=0,1 have only the empty expression.

2.1F3step 1.1

By [F3] the elements x1c1⋯xmcmτweν form a k-basis of A, and each of them is the image under Φ of the corresponding product of generators and dots in SΓ(β); hence Φ is surjective.

3.1F1F3step 2.1step 1.2algebra

Filter the presentation by crossing number. Move dots left using its mixed and slide relations, inducting first on crossing number and then on dot/crossing inversions; correction terms have fewer crossings. For a nonreduced crossing word the normalization in step 1.2 exposes an adjacent repeated reflection, whose square relation removes two crossings. For a reduced word the same step connects it to the chosen reduced expression. Lift each braid move to the signed presentation: its additional polynomial correction has fewer crossings and is handled by induction. Hence the presentation is spanned by xcτweν, with finitely many crossing words and arbitrary nonnegative dot powers. Their images under Φ are linearly independent by [F3], so any finite linear combination in the kernel has zero coefficients. This proves injectivity.

4.1F1F4F5step 3.1

By [F4] the corner Ext⁡Gn(Lη,Lν) is naturally identified with the Borel–Moore group Hdη+dν−nBM,G(Zη,ν;k); by [F5] this identification carries the shifted composition product a∗b=b[n]∘a to the geometric convolution product of [F1], and the direct sum of the corner identifications is an isomorphism of unital graded algebras, the diagonal class corresponding to id⁡Lν and nonmatching corners multiplying to zero. In particular all computations of [F3], which were performed with the convolution product, are statements about the shifted Ext algebra, so the isomorphism produced in steps 1.1–3.1 is an isomorphism of graded algebras. No semismallness, purity or decomposition theorem is used, and finite-dimensionality of the total Ext algebra is not assumed: [F4] and [F5] apply to the given proper maps with smooth sources without requiring smooth fiber products.

5.1A1step 1.1step 4.1∎

Combining steps 1.1–4.1, the map Φ is a bijective graded k-algebra homomorphism from SΓ(β) to Ext⁡G∙(⨁νLν,⨁νLν) with the shifted product, sending the intrinsic generators to the diagonal, Chern and normalized elementary classes, and it is unique with this property by step 1.1. The Axiom of Choice entered only through [A1].

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