Casimir Operators and Monodromy Representations of Generalised Braid Groups

By John Millson, Valerio Toledano Laredo. 2003

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Let g be a complex, simple Lie algebra with Cartan subalgebra h and Weyl group W. We construct a one-parameter family of flat connections ∇κ on h with values in any finite-dimensional g-module V and simple poles on the root hyperplanes. The corresponding monodromyre presentation of the braid group Bg of type g is a deformation of the action of (afinite extension of) W on V. The residues of ∇κ are the Casimirs κα of the subalgebra sslα2 ⊂ g corresponding to the roots of g. The irreducibility of a subspace U ⊂= V under the κα implies that, for generic values of the parameter, the braid group Bg acts irreducibly on U. Answering a question of Knutson and Procesi, we show that these Casimirs act irreducibly on the weight spaces of all simple g-modules if g = sl3 but that this is not the case if g ≇ sl2,sl3. We use this to disprove a conjecture of Kwon and Lusztig stating the irreducibility of quantum Weyl group actions of Artin’s braid group Bn on the zero-weight spaces of all simple Usln-modules for n≥4. Finally, we study their reducibility of the action of the Casimirs on the zero-weight spaces of self-dual g-modules and obtain complete classification results for g = sln and g2.

Subfields: Algebra and Number Theory, Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics

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