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A Demazure character formula for the product monomial crystal Joel Gibson September 2020 School of Mathematics and Statistics Faculty of Science The University of Sydney A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Statement of originality This is to certify that to the best of my knowledge, the content of this thesis is my own work. This thesis has not been submitted for any degree or other purposes. I certify that the intellectual content of this thesis is the product of my own work and that all the assistance received in preparing this thesis and sources have been acknowledged. Signed: Joel Gibson 3 Abstract The product monomial crystal was defined by Kamnitzer, Tingley, Webster, Weekes, and Yacobi for any semisim- ple simply-laced Lie algebra and a multiset of parameters. The crystal is closely related to the representation theory of truncated shifted Yangians, a family of algebras quantising transversal slices to Schubert varieties in the affine Grassmannian. In this thesis we give a systematic study of the product monomial crystal usingthe novel tool of truncations, resulting in a Demazure-type character formula which is valid in any symmetric bi- partite Kac-Moody type. We establish results on stability of the crystal, and use these and the character formula to show that in type A the product monomial crystal is the crystal of a generalised Schur module associated to a column-convex diagram, as defined by Magyar, Reiner, and Shimozono. 5 Acknowledgements Firstly I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Oded Yacobi, for his guidance, encour- agement, enthusiasm, and support throughout my candidature. His mentorship and guidance have helped me navigate the academic world, as well as become a better communicator. I consider myself very fortunate to have had his supervision and mentorship over the past four years. Thanks also go to my associate supervisor An- thony Henderson for some great discussions and direction to valuable references, and Geordie Williamson for a fantastic MSRI workshop and his infectious love of representation theory. I thank all the friends who have supported me over the last four years, both in the faculty and outside. Thanks to Kitty Chang and Joachim Worthington for showing me the ropes as a brand-new PhD student, Alex Casella and Dom Tate for the endless effort they put in to the postgraduate maths community at USyd, and Alex Kerschlfor being an excellent conference companion. The members of the representation theory group we’ve had at Sydney over the last few years have been nothing short of amazing, and particular thanks to Anna Romanov, Yusra Naqvi, and Emily Cliff for fostering such a sense of community here. Also thanks to my peers Joe, Josh, Giulian, Gaston, Kane, and Yee for being a great bunch of people. Between mathematical discussions, postgraduate solidatity, and impromptu performances of Gilbert and Sullivan, they’ve been an endless well of support and encouragement. Finally I’d like to thank my family, without whom none of this would have been possible. My partner Anneka has now seen me through both an Honours thesis and a PhD thesis, and has remained enthusiastic and encouraging through all of the ups and downs of a postgraduate degree. Her constant love, support, patience, and energy has been invaluable, and it is in a large part due to her that this thesis (working title ‘The Crystal Matrix’) is finally complete. My parents have been (as always) supporting and encouraging of me, and their advice has helped me slow down and enjoy myself. Thanks for encouraging and reinforcing both my love of science as well as my love of music — taking both in equal parts over the last four years has been a real treat. Finally, my sister Maddie has always believed in me, always reminded me to be proud of myself, and has been a constant irrepressible source of good vibes and ‘dank’ memes. 7 Contents 1 Introduction 11 1.1 Structure .................................................. 12 2 Notation 13 3 Lie Theory 15 3.1 Cartan data ................................................ 16 3.2 The Coxeter graph ............................................. 17 3.3 The Braid, Weyl, and Cactus groups ................................... 18 3.4 Kac-Moody root data ........................................... 20 3.5 Kac-Moody algebras ........................................... 24 3.6 Quantum groups ............................................. 26 4 Crystals 31 4.1 Crystal bases of integrable modules ................................... 31 4.2 The category of crystals .......................................... 34 4.3 Tensor product of crystals ........................................ 39 4.4 Recognition theorems ........................................... 40 4.5 Weyl group action ............................................. 41 4.6 Cactus group action ............................................ 42 4.7 Addendum ................................................. 43 5 Demazure modules and crystals 45 5.1 Formal Characters ............................................. 45 5.2 Demazure modules and the character formula ............................. 47 5.3 Demazure crystals ............................................. 50 5.4 History: The Demazure character formula ............................... 53 6 Monomial crystals 55 6.1 Nakajima’s Monomial Crystal ...................................... 55 6.2 A variation on the monomial crystal ................................... 60 6.3 The product monomial crystal ...................................... 63 6.4 Labelling elements of the crystal ..................................... 65 6.5 A partial order ............................................... 66 6.6 Supports of monomials .......................................... 67 7 Truncations and the character formula 69 7.1 Truncations defined by upward sets ................................... 69 7.2 A Demazure character formula ...................................... 71 7.3 Truncations are Demazure crystals ................................... 73 8 Nakajima quiver varieties 77 8.1 Representations of quivers ........................................ 77 8.2 Moduli spaces of quiver representations ................................ 78 8.3 Nakajima quiver varieties ......................................... 79 8.4 Vector bundles on quiver varieties .................................... 81 8.5 Graded quiver varieties .......................................... 81 9 Contents 9 Generalised Schur modules 85 9.1 Generalised Specht modules ....................................... 85 9.2 Generalised Schur modules ........................................ 88 9.3 Flagged Schur modules .......................................... 91 9.4 Polynomial characters of GL푛 ...................................... 93 9.5 Type A truncations ............................................ 95 10 Stability of decomposition 99 10.1 Stability of restriction ........................................... 99 10.2 Application: decomposing a product ................................... 102 10.3 Stability of the product monomial crystal for GL푛 ........................... 103 Bibliography 107 10 1 Introduction Let 퐺 be a simply-laced reductive group over the complex numbers ℂ, with Repℂ 퐺 the category of its finite- dimensional algebraic representations. This category is semisimple with simple objects 퐿(휆) indexed by domi- nant weights 휆, and an interesting problem is to define ‘natural’ constructions of these representations forany dominant weight. This problem has been very fruitful, with three such constructions realising 퐿(휆) as: 1. The space of sections Γ(퐺/퐵, ℒ휆) of a line bundle ℒ휆 on the flag variety 퐺/퐵, 2. The cohomology of a Nakajima quiver variety associated to the pair (퐺, 휆), generalising a previous con- struction of Ginzburg using Springer fibres in the case of 퐺 = GL푛, and 3. The intersection homology 퐼퐻(Gr휆) inside the dual affine Grassmannian Gr = 퐺∨((푧))/퐺∨[[푧]] of the spher- ical orbit Gr휆. The fact that these three realisations all give rise to 퐿(휆) might be surprising, since the underlying geometric spaces are rather different, and consequently there has been some progress made to state relationships between these spaces. Throughout the papers [Kam+14; Kam+19a; Kam+19b] the authors investigate the relationship between the second and third realisations, establishing the fact that transverse slices in the dual affine Grass- mannian are symplectic dual to Nakajima quiver varieties. Throughout their study they investigate a family of 휆 휆 non-commutative deformations 푌휇 (R) of the coordinate ring of the transverse slice Gr휇 depending on an integral 휆 휆 set of parameters R, and define a category 풪(푌휇 (R)) of their representations. The sum 풱 (휆, R) = ⨁휇≤휆 풪(푌휇 (R)) carries a categorical (Lie 퐺)-action (in the sense of Chuang and Rouquier [CR04; Rou08]), making the complexi- fied Grothendieck group 푉 (휆, R) = 퐾ℂ(풱 (휆, R)) a representation of 퐺. This thesis concerns the representation 푉 (휆, R) and its crystal ℳ(휆, R), called the product monomial crystal af- ter its embedding into Nakajima’s crystal of monomials. We give a novel new method of analysing the crystal ℳ(휆, R) by certain global truncations, which we use to give a Demazure-type character formula for the crystal, our first main result. Our second main result is specific totype A, where we show that the product monomial crystal is in fact the crystal of a previously-studied family of modules called the generalised Schur modules for column- convex