Arun Ram
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010 Australia
aram@unimelb.edu.au
and
Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI 53706 USA
ram@math.wisc.edu
Last updates: 18 March 2012
Spectral subalgebras
Then since, if and then where the third equality uses the definition of
If is a quasitriangular Hopf algebra the satisfies the quantum Yang-Baxter equation, (QYBE),
Since and and so
Then, since it follows that Applying this to the pair gives and so Then
The map in the following proposition is ananalogue of the Harish-Chandra homomorphism.
Let be a quasitrtiangular Hopf algebra. Then and the map
Proof.
If and then and hence is a commutative algebra.
Let First note that since is the antipode of , and
Then, since and so Since and so is a homomorphism.
Central elements
The following proposition provides Drinfeld's "second central element construction" [Dr, Prop. 1.2 and Prop 3.3]. The model example is the case that
and
Let be a quasitriangular Hopf algebra with antipode Let and be invertible elements such that
respectively. Let
Let be the center of and let be the Grothendieck group of finite dimensional representations of Define
for Then
is a commutative subalgebra of
the maps and are well defined;
is an algebra homomorphism;
if
then
is an algebra homomorphism; and
if then
is an algebra homomorphism.
Proof.
Let Then
where the fourth equality follows from the fact that is a coalgebra automorphism. Thus is a subalgebra of
Since
So is commutative.
Let
Then
and thus
and is well defined.
The identities
from the definition of a Hopf algebra are the relations which provide the isomorphisms in [DRV] (A.8). For
So
Hence
is an element of the center of and is well defined.
Let Let be a basis of a dual basis in a basis of and a dual basis in Then
So
is an algebra homomorphism.
Assume
Let Then
So
is an algebra homomorphism.
Assume
Let Then
Since
So
is an algebra homomorphism.
Let and let
Let
Then
Thus, since
when
In the case that and
and are modules, and
and
then (d) and (e) above give that, as elements of
and
(as explained in [Dr, Prop. 3.3] and [Bau, Prop. 2]). In this case, the computation in the proof of (d) and (e), pictorially, is
Fix a Cartan subalgebra in For define the Weyl character
The expressions and are elements of the group algebra of
and, if then
where the dot action of on is given by
The Weyl denominator formula says that
and the Weyl character formula says that if is a dominant integral weight, is the simple module of highest weight and is a basis of consisting of weight vectors then
the dimension of the weight space of For define an algebra homomorphism
Then
since
and
[TW, Lemma 3.5.1] Let be a finite dimensional complex semisimple Lie algebra and let be the corresponding Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum group. etc etc ???? Let be a dominant integral weight so that the irreducible module of highest weight is finite dimensional. Then
Proof.
Let be an orthonormal basis of By [Dr, §4] (see [LR, (2.13)]) there is an expression
and and are homogeneous elements of degree greater than Let be a basis of weight vectors of and let be the dual basis in Let be a highest weight vector in Since
and
acts on
by
Since
is central in it acts on by a scalar. Therefore, since is a lowering operator,
as proved in [Dr, Prop. 5.3]. Then
The Turaev-Wenzl identity almost provides an inverse to the Harish-Chandra homomorphism. In the case of
and this element acts on by the constant
when
Drinfeld [Dr, last par. of §4] explains the connection between the construction of central elements in (Ss 2.3) and the construction of central elements in [RTF, Theorem 14]. This is expanded by Baumann [Bau, 3rd par. of §3] as follows. Let and let
be a representation of and let
be the matrix coefficients of As in [RTF, Theorem 16(1) and Theorem 18] set
Let
Then
is a matrix with entries in and
Examples.
Since
the definition of and
give
Since
is a degree 1 element of
and
is an isomorphism, it follows that
If
is an element of
then
Two special cases of (Ss 4.1) are
and
Comparing coefficients of in (Ss 4.3) gives
for some
Baumann's identity
Identify Rep with
For
let
[Bau, Thm. 1] For
define
Then
Proof.
First note that
where the second equality uses (Ss 4.2). Taking of the LHS of the Baumann identity is
where the last equality uses (Ss 4.4). Taking of the RHS of the Baumann identity is
by Turaev-Wenzl. Thus
since
Thus
which completes the proof of the Baumann identity (THOUGH NOT THE STATEMENT THAT THE
ARE CHARACTERIZED BY THIS IDENTITY.
It follows from (Ss 3.4)??? that the quantum dimension is
Hence
and the Weyl dimension formula is