A Local Characterization of Unions of Demazure Crystals

Abstract

We characterize subsets of highest weight $\mathfrak{g}$-crystals that arise as unions of Demazure crystals, for any symmetrizable Kac-Moody Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$. We provide a local characterization for these subsets and prove they admit disjoint decompositions into Demazure atoms. As a consequence, we give a new characterization for when a subset of a highest weight crystal is a Demazure crystal as well as a crystal-theoretic proof that any Polo module admits a relative Schubert filtration.