Affine quivers and canonical bases
Affine quivers and canonical bases
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10.1007/bf02699432
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发表时间:
1992-12
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G. Lusztig
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G. Lusztig
Let U be the quantized enveloping algebra attached by Drinfeld and Jimbo to a symmetric generalized Cartan matrix (see [D]); let L^ L^ 00 U (x) U~ be its triangular decomposition.In [L], a purely geometric construction of U^= U (x) U~(as a Hopf algebra) was given in terms of perverse sheaves on the moduli space of representations of a quiver; the construction gave at the same time a canonical basis of U~ with very favourable properties.(This amounts, in principle, to a geometric construction ofU, since by DrinfekTs quantum double construction [D, § 13], the Hopf algebra U can be reconstructed in a simple way from the Hopf algebra U^.) In the generality of [L], the simple perverse sheaves which enter in the canonical basis of U~ are only defined in an abstract way, but are not known in a concrete form, except in the simplest case (type A, D, E) when they are exactly the simple perverse sheaves corresponding to orbits. One of the aims of this paper is to describe in concrete terms the simple perverse sheaves which form the canonical basis in the affme case (that is, the case of a symmetric affine Cartan matrix).