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Serre relations in Drinfeld's new realization of Yangian doubles can be rewritten as quadratic commutation relations between composed currents for classical series Lie algebras.

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load-bearing objection The paper reformulates Serre relations for Yangian doubles of classical series as quadratic commutation relations on composed currents, using Enriquez's residue method in highest-weight representations. the 1 major comments →

arxiv 2606.31624 v1 pith:YDJBNGHG submitted 2026-06-30 math-ph math.MPmath.QA

Serre Relations in Yangian Doubles

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keywords Yangian doublesSerre relationsDrinfeld realizationcomposed currentsclassical Lie algebrashighest weight representationsquadratic commutation relations
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The paper applies Enriquez's method to the products of currents in Yangian doubles, but only within highest weight representations. It uses the resulting analytical properties to convert the original Serre relations on simple root currents into a set of quadratic commutation relations on composed currents. This conversion is carried out for the doubles associated with all classical Lie algebras. A reader working with these algebras would see the relations expressed in a different, potentially more convenient form that still encodes the same algebraic structure.

Core claim

Following the approach of B. Enriquez we exhibit the analytical properties of the products of the currents in the Yangian doubles restricted to the category of the highest weight representations. We demonstrate that the Serre relations for the simple root currents in the Drinfeld's 'new' realization of the Yangian doubles can be reformulated as quadratic commutation relations between composed currents for the Yangian doubles associated with Lie algebras of the classical series.

What carries the argument

Analytical properties of products of currents restricted to highest weight representations, which convert Serre relations on simple root currents into quadratic commutation relations on composed currents.

Load-bearing premise

The analytical properties of the products of the currents, when restricted to highest weight representations, suffice to perform the reformulation following Enriquez's approach.

What would settle it

A concrete highest weight representation of a Yangian double for a classical Lie algebra in which the quadratic commutation relations between the composed currents fail to reproduce the original Serre relations would falsify the claim.

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If this is right

  • The quadratic form of the relations holds for every classical series Lie algebra.
  • The reformulation applies inside the category of highest weight representations.
  • Composed currents satisfy the new quadratic relations in place of the original Serre relations.
  • The same analytical properties that justify the rewrite are available for all such doubles.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The quadratic presentation may simplify explicit calculations of matrix elements or characters in concrete representations.
  • Similar rewrites could be attempted for exceptional series once the corresponding analytical properties are established.
  • The composed-current relations might admit a direct interpretation in terms of screening operators or vertex operators used in integrable models.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. Following Enriquez's approach, the manuscript exhibits analytical properties of products of currents in Yangian doubles (restricted to highest-weight representations) and claims to demonstrate that the Serre relations for simple-root currents in Drinfeld's new realization can be recast as quadratic commutation relations among composed currents, for Yangian doubles associated to classical-series Lie algebras.

Significance. If the claimed reformulation is established with explicit checks, it would supply an alternative presentation of the defining relations that may simplify certain calculations in the representation theory of these algebras.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the text states that a demonstration is carried out but supplies no derivation steps, residue calculations, or explicit verification that the analytical properties suffice to convert the Serre relations into the claimed quadratic form; without these the central claim cannot be assessed.

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We thank the referee for their report. We address the single major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the text states that a demonstration is carried out but supplies no derivation steps, residue calculations, or explicit verification that the analytical properties suffice to convert the Serre relations into the claimed quadratic form; without these the central claim cannot be assessed.

    Authors: The abstract is a concise summary. The full manuscript exhibits the analytical properties of products of currents in highest-weight representations and demonstrates the reformulation of Serre relations as quadratic commutation relations via residue calculations, following Enriquez's approach, with explicit checks for the classical series. These steps appear in the body of the paper (Sections 2--4). revision: no

Circularity Check

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No circularity: derivation follows external Enriquez approach on independent analytical properties

full rationale

The paper explicitly follows Enriquez's external approach to exhibit analytical properties of current products in highest-weight representations, then demonstrates reformulation of Serre relations (from cited Drinfeld new realization) as quadratic relations among composed currents. No self-definitional steps, no fitted inputs renamed as predictions, and the load-bearing argument rests on external prior results rather than reducing to self-citation chains or ansatzes. The restriction to classical series and highest-weight category is stated explicitly, rendering the derivation self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Paper relies on standard properties of Yangian doubles and highest weight representations from cited literature; no free parameters or invented entities are visible in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Yangian doubles admit a Drinfeld new realization with simple root currents satisfying Serre relations.
    Invoked in the statement of the claim; standard background in the field.
  • domain assumption Highest weight representations admit well-defined products of currents with specified analytic properties.
    Central to the approach following Enriquez; required for the reformulation.

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Following the approach of B.~Enriquez~\cite{E} we exhibit the analytical properties of the products of the currents in the Yangian doubles restricted to the category of the highest weight representations. We will demonstrate that the Serre relations for the simple root currents in the Drinfeld's 'new' realization of the Yangian doubles \cite{Dnew,KhT-DY,LP1} can be reformulated as quadratic commutation relations between composed currents for the Yangian doubles associated with Lie algebras of the classical series.

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