Crystal structure of level zero extremal weight modules

Abstract

We consider the crystal structure of the level zero extremal weight modules $V(\lambda)$ using the crystal base of the quantum affine algebra constructed by Beck, Chari and Pressley. This approach yields an explicit form for the U^- extremal weight vectors in each connected component of the crystal of $V(\lambda)$, which are given as Schur functions in the imaginary root vectors. We use this fact to demonstrate Kashiwara's conjectures regarding the crystal structure of $V(\lambda)$.