《QUANTIZATION OF LIE BIALGEBRAS VI》.pdf

QUANTIZATION OF LIE BIALGEBRAS, PART VI: QUANTIZATION OF GENERALIZED KAC-MOODY ALGEBRAS 8 0 0 2 Pavel Etingof 1 and David Kazhdan2 y a M To Bert Kostant with admiration 5 1. Introduction. 1 ] This paper is a continuation of the series [EK1-5]. We show that the image A of a Kac-Moody Lie bialgebra with the standard quasitriangular structure under Q the quantization functor defined in [EK1,EK2] is isomorphic to the Drinfeld-Jimbo . quantization of this Lie bialgebra, with the standard quasitriangular structure. h This implies that when the quantization parameter is formal, then the category O t a for the quantized Kac-Moody algebra is equivalent, as a braided tensor category, m to the category O over the corresponding classical Kac-Moody algebra, with the [ tensor category structure defined by a Drinfeld associator. This equivalence is a 3 generalization of the functor constructed in [KL]. v In particular, we answer positively questions 8.1, 8.2 from [Dr1]: we show that 2 the characters of irreducible highest weight modules for a quantized Kac-Moody 4 algebra g are the same as in the classical case, and that the quantum deformation 0 ˆ of the appropriate completion U (g) of U (g) is trivial as a deformation of algebras. 4 0 Moreover, our results are valid for the Lie algebra g(A) corresponding to any 0 symmetrizable matrix A (not necessarily with integer entries). This answers ques- tion 8.3 in [Dr1], of Drinfeld and Gelfand (how to de