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Spectra of tensor products of finite dimensional representations of Yangians. (English) Zbl 0868.17009
The author generalizes the notion of character of representations in the case of representations of Yangians. Let $$V$$ be a finite-dimensional representation of the Yangian $$Y(g)$$, $$\{h_{ik}\}$$ canonical generators generating the commutative subalgebra $$H$$ of $$Y(g)$$, $$V=\bigoplus_\beta V_\beta$$, where $$V_\beta$$ is a generalized eigenspace for $$h_{ik}$$ $$(V_\beta= \text{Ker} (h_{ik}-\beta I)^r$$ for some $$r$$); $$d^\beta_{ik}$$ generalized eigenvalues such that $$h_{ik}- d^\beta_{ik} I$$ acts nilpotently on $$V_\beta$$. For each sequence $$\beta= (\beta_1,\dots, \beta_n)$$ define $$\beta(u_1,\dots, u_n)= \prod^n_{i=1} \beta_i(u_i)$$, where $$\beta_i(u_i)= 1+\sum^\infty_{k=1} d^\beta_{ik} u_i^{-k-1}$$. Consider the group $$L_n= \{f(u_1,\dots,u_n)= \prod^n_{i=1} f_i(u_i)\}$$ over all possible Laurent series $$f_i$$ with the usual multiplication of Laurent series. The group algebra $$\mathbb{C}[L_n]$$ has as a basis the set of formal exponentials $$\{e(f(u_1,\dots, u_n))\}$$ with multiplication $e(f(u_1,\dots, u_n)) e(g(u_1,\dots, u_n))= e(f(u_1,\dots, u_n)g(u_1,\dots, u_n)).$ If $$V$$ is a finite- dimensional representation of $$Y(g)$$ then the character $$\text{ch}(V)$$ is an element of the group $$\mathbb{C}[L_n]$$ given by $$\text{ch}(V)= \sum_\beta \dim(V_\beta) e(\beta(u_1,\dots, u_n))$$. The author proves the following results:
(1) Let $$A$$ be a finite-dimensional representation of $$Y(g)$$, $$B$$ a subrepresentation, $$C=A/B$$. Then $$\text{ch}(A)= \text{ch}(B)+ \text{ch}(C)$$.
(2) $$\text{ch}(V\otimes W)=\text{ch}(V) \text{ch}(W)$$ for finite-dimensional representations $$V$$, $$W$$.
Finally, the author computes the character of the $$(m+1)$$-dimensional representation $$W_m(c)$$ of $$Y({\mathfrak sl}_2)$$ in terms of Drinfeld polynomials.

##### MSC:
 17B37 Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations
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