Annular webs and Levi subalgebras

Abstract

For any Levi subalgebra of the form $\mathfrak{l}=\mathfrak{gl}_{l1}\oplus\cdots\oplus\mathfrak{gl}{l_d}\subseteq\mathfrak{gl}_n$ we construct a quotient of the category of annular quantum $\mathfrak{gl}_n$ webs that is equivalent to the category of finite dimensional representations of quantum $\mathfrak{l}$ generated by exterior powers of the vector representation. This can be interpreted as an annular version of skew Howe duality, gives a description of the representation category of $\mathfrak{l}$ by additive idempotent completion, and a web version of the generalized blob algebra.

Publication
To appear in Journal of Combinatorial Algebra