Affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras: The center

Arun Ram
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010 Australia
aram@unimelb.edu.au

Last update: 18 October 2013

Contents

1 Introduction
2 Affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras
2.1 The degenerate affine braid algebra k
2.2 The degenerate affine BMW algebra 𝒲k
2.3 The affine braid group Bk
2.4 The affine BMW algebra Wk
3 Identities in affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras
3.1 The degenerate affine case
3.2 The affine case
4 The center of the affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras
4.1 A basis of 𝒲k
4.2 The center of 𝒲k
4.3 A basis of Wk
4.4 The center of Wk

Notes and references

This is a typed exert of the paper Affine and degenerate affine BMW algebras: The center by Zajj Daugherty, Arun Ram and Rahbar Virk.

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