SIGMA 9 (2013), 049, 23 pages      arXiv:1302.6298      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2013.049
Contribution to the Special Issue in honor of Anatol Kirillov and Tetsuji Miwa

A Common Structure in PBW Bases of the Nilpotent Subalgebra of $U_q(\mathfrak{g})$ and Quantized Algebra of Functions

Atsuo Kuniba ^a, Masato Okado ^b and Yasuhiko Yamada ^c
a) Institute of Physics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
^b) Department of Mathematical Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
^c) Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan

Received March 19, 2013, in final form July 10, 2013; Published online July 19, 2013

Abstract
For a finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, let $U^+_q(\mathfrak{g})$ be the positive part of the quantized universal enveloping algebra, and $A_q(\mathfrak{g})$ be the quantized algebra of functions. We show that the transition matrix of the PBW bases of $U^+_q(\mathfrak{g})$ coincides with the intertwiner between the irreducible $A_q(\mathfrak{g})$-modules labeled by two different reduced expressions of the longest element of the Weyl group of $\mathfrak{g}$. This generalizes the earlier result by Sergeev on $A_2$ related to the tetrahedron equation and endows a new representation theoretical interpretation with the recent solution to the 3D reflection equation for $C_2$. Our proof is based on a realization of $U^+_q(\mathfrak{g})$ in a quotient ring of $A_q(\mathfrak{g})$.

Key words: quantized enveloping algebra; PBW bases; quantized algebra of functions; tetrahedron equation.

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