On the centers of cyclotomic quiver Hecke algebras

Abstract

Let $n\in\mathbb{N}$ and $K$ be any field. For any symmetric generalized Cartan matrix $A$, any $β$ in the positive root lattice with height $n$ and any integral dominant weight $Λ$, one can associate a quiver Hecke algebras $R_β(K)$ and its cyclotomic quotient $R_β^Λ(K)$ over $K$. It has been conjectured that the natural map from $R_β(K)$ to $R_β^Λ(K)$ maps the center of $R_β(K)$ surjectively onto the center of $R_β^Λ(K)$. A similar conjecture claims that the center of the affine Hecke algebra of type $A$ maps surjectively onto the center of its cyclotomic quotient---the cyclotomic Hecke algebra $H_n^Λ$ of type $G(\ell,1,n)$ over $K$. In this paper, we prove these two conjectures affirmatively. As a consequence, we show that the center of $H_n^Λ$ is stable under base change and it has dimension equal to the number of $\ell$-partitions of $n$. Finally, as a byproduct, we also verify a conjecture of Shan, Varagnolo and Vasserot on the grading structure of the center of $R_β^Λ(K)$.