Data Abstract A few extra words
In order to do this, we identify Kuperberg's basis for the -web space with a version of Leclerc-Toffin's intermediate crystal basis and we identify Brundan, Kleshchev and Wang's degree of tableaux with the weight of flows on webs and the -degree of foams.
We use this to give a “foamy” version of Hu and Mathas graded cellular basis of the cyclotomic Hecke algebra which turns out to be a graded cellular basis of the -web algebra .
We restrict ourselves to the case here, but our approach should, up to the combinatorics of -webs, work for all .
A good example is the explicit construction of a graded cellular basis - something Brundan and Stroppel did in a nice and purely combinatorial fashion in the case (see here).
It turns out that one of the main problems in the case (getting worse for bigger ) is that the dual canonical basis of the underlying web space is NOT the usual web basis. In fact, we show that Kuperberg's web basis is still special by identifying it with an intermediate crystal basis.
There is an algorithm to compute the intermediate crystal basis. This can be transferred (using quantum skew Howe duality) to the -web framework. An example is illustrated below, i.e. each web gives rise to a string of operators that generate the web from a highest weight vector.
We have categorified this algorithm by giving an algorithm to produce foams that form an explicit cellular basis.