Stabilization phenomena in Kac-Moody algebras and quiver varieties

Ben Webster

Published 2005-05-30, updated 2024-03-14Version 4

Let X be the Dynkin diagram of a symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebra, and X_0 a subgraph with all vertices of degree 1 or 2. Using the crystal structure on the components of quiver varieties for X, we show that if we expand X by extending X_0, the branching multiplicities and tensor product multiplicities stabilize, provided the weights involved satisfy a condition which we call ``depth'' and are supported outside $X_0$. This extends a theorem of Kleber and Viswanath. Furthermore, we show that the weight multiplicities of such representations are polynomial in the length of X_0, generalizing the same result for A_\ell by Benkart, et al.