Two-term expansion conjecture for products involving a real dual canonical basis vector

Let b1,b2Bb_1,b_2\in{\bf B}^*, where b1b_1 is real, meaning b12qZBb_1^2\in q^{\mathbb Z}{\bf B}^*. Suppose that b1b2qZBb_1b_2\notin q^{\mathbb Z}{\bf B}^*. Two-term expansion conjecture. The expansion of b1b2b_1b_2 in B{\bf B}^* has the form

b1b2=qmb+qsb+cb,bγb1b2c(q)c,b_1b_2=q^m b'+q^s b”+\sum_{c\ne b',b”}\gamma_{b_1b_2}^c(q)c,

where bbb'\ne b”, m,sZm,s\in\mathbb Z, m<sm<s, and γb1b2c(q)Z[q,q1]\gamma_{b_1b_2}^c(q)\in\mathbb Z[q,q^{-1}]; moreover, whenever γb1b2c(q)0\gamma_{b_1b_2}^c(q)\ne0,

γb1b2c(q)qm+1Z[q]qs1Z[q1].\gamma_{b_1b_2}^c(q)\in q^{m+1}\mathbb Z[q]\cap q^{s-1}\mathbb Z[q^{-1}].

The conjecture is motivated by the behavior of products with a real basis vector and is checked in the paper when b1b_1 is a Chevalley generator, but no resolution is supplied for the general case.

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Primary source

Bernard Leclerc, “Imaginary vectors in the dual canonical basis of U_q(n)”, arXiv:math/0202148 (2002).

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