Quasi-Coxeter Algebras, Dynkin Diagram Cohomology, and Quantum Weyl Groups
Quasi-Coxeter Algebras, Dynkin Diagram Cohomology, and Quantum Weyl Groups
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拟 Coxeter 代数、Dynkin 图上同调和量子 Weyl 群
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2010
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V. T. Laredo
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作者:
V. T. Laredo
The author [TL1, TL2], and independently De Concini (unpublished), conjectured that the monodromy of the Casimir connection∇C introduced in [MTL] is described by Lusztig’s quantum Weyl group operators. This conjecture was proved in [TL1] for all representations of the Lie algebra g = sln and in [TL2] for a number of pairs (g, V ) including vector and spin representations of classical Lie algebras and the adjoint representation of all complex, simple Lie algebras. The aim of this paper, and of its sequel [TL4] is to prove this conjecture for all g. Our strategy is inspired by Drinfeld’s proof of the equivalence of the monodromy of the Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations for g and the R–matrix representations coming from the quantum group U~g. It relies on the use of quasi–Coxeter algebras, which are to the generalised braid group of type g what Drinfeld’s quasitriangular quasibialgebras are to Artin’s braid groups Bn. Using this notion, and the associated deformation cohomology, which we call Dynkin diagram cohomology, we reduce the conjecture in this paper to a (non– cohomological) statement about the classical enveloping algebra Ug, namely the existence of a quasi–Coxeter, quasitriangular quasibialgebra structure on it interpolating between the quasi–Coxeter algebra structure underlying the monodromy of the connection ∇C and the quasitriangular quasibialgebra structure underlying that of the KZ equations. The existence of such a structure will be proved in [TL4].