Categorification of DAHA and Macdonald polynomials

Syu Kato, Anton Khoroshkin, Ievgen Makedonskyi

Published 2021-03-18Version 1

We describe a categorification of the Double Affine Hecke Algebra ${\mathcal{H}\kern -.4em\mathcal{H}}$ associated with an affine Lie algebra $\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}$, a categorification of the polynomial representation and a categorification of Macdonald polynomials. All categorification results are given in the derived setting. That is, we consider the derived category associated with graded modules over the Lie superalgera ${\mathfrak I}[\xi]$, where ${\mathfrak I}\subset\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}$ is the Iwahori subalgebra of the affine Lie algebra and $\xi$ is a formal odd variable. The Euler characteristic of graded characters of a complex of ${\mathfrak I}[\xi]$-modules is considered as an element of a polynomial representation. First, we show that the compositions of induction and restriction functors associated with minimal parabolic subalgebras ${\mathfrak{p}}_{i}$ categorify Demazure operators $T_i+1\in{\mathcal{H}\kern -.4em\mathcal{H}}$, meaning that all algebraic relations of $T_i$ have categorical meanings. Second, we describe a natural collection of complexes ${\mathbb{EM}}_{\lambda}$ of ${\mathfrak I}[\xi]$-modules whose Euler characteristic is equal to nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials $E_\lambda$ for dominant $\lambda$ and a natural collection of complexes of $\mathfrak{g}[z,\xi]$-modules ${\mathbb{PM}}_{\lambda}$ whose Euler characteristic is equal to the symmetric Macdonald polynomial $P_{\lambda}$. We illustrate our theory with the example $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{sl}_2$ where we construct the cyclic representations of Lie superalgebra ${\mathfrak I}[\xi]$ such that their supercharacters coincide with renormalizations of nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials.