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In this paper we study general quantum affinizations \(\mathcal{U}_q(\widehat{\mathfrak{g}})\) of symmetrizable quantum Kac-Moody algebras and we develop their representation theory. We prove a triangular decomposition and we give a classication of (type 1) highest weight simple integrable representations analog to Drinfel'd-Chari-Presley one. A generalization of the q-characters morphism, introduced by Frenkel-Reshetikhin for quantum affine algebras, appears to be a powerful tool for this investigation. For a large class of quantum affinizations (including quantum affine algebras and quantum toroidal algebras), the combinatorics of q-characters give a ring structure * on the Grothendieck group \(\text{Rep}(\mathcal{U}_q(\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}))\) of the integrable representations that we classified. We propose a new construction of tensor products in a larger category by using the Drinfel'd new coproduct (it cannot directly be used for \(\text{Rep}(\mathcal{U}_q(\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}))\) because it involves infinite sums). In particular, we prove that * is a fusion product (a product of representations is a representation).
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Hernandez, D. Representations of Quantum Affinizations and Fusion Product. Transformation Groups 10, 163–200 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00031-005-1005-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00031-005-1005-9