Asymptotics of Standard Modules of Quantum Affine Algebras

Abstract

We introduce a sequence of q-characters of standard modules of a quantum affine algebra and we prove it has a limit as a formal power series. For $\mathfrak {g} = \hat {\mathfrak {s}\mathfrak {l}_{2}}$, we establish an explicit formula for the limit which enables us to construct corresponding asymptotical standard modules associated to each simple module in the category $\mathcal {O}$ of a Borel subalgebra of the quantum affine algebra. Finally, we prove a decomposition formula for the limit formula into q-characters of simple modules in this category $\mathcal {O}$.