A categorification of finite-dimensional irreducible representations of quantum sl(2) and their tensor products

Igor Frenkel; Mikhail Khovanov; Catharina Stroppel

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A categorification of finite-dimensional irreducible representations of quantum sl(2) and their tensor products

Igor Frenkel·Mikhail Khovanov·Catharina Stroppel

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The purpose of this paper is to study categorifications of tensor products of finite dimensional modules for the quantum group for sl(2). The main categorification is obtained using certain Harish-Chandra bimodules for the complex Lie algebra gl(n). For the special case of simple modules we naturally deduce a categorification via modules over the cohomology ring of certain flag varieties. Further geometric categorifications and the relation to Steinberg varieties are discussed. We also give a categorical version of the quantised Schur-Weyl duality and an interpretation of the (dual) canonical bases and the (dual) standard bases in terms of projective, tilting, standard and simple Harish-Chandra bimodules.

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Igor Frenkel, Mikhail Khovanov, Catharina Stroppel. 2005-11-18. A categorification of finite-dimensional irreducible representations of quantum sl(2) and their tensor products. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511467

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