Traces of tensor product categorifications
The trace is a decategorification functor which can often reveal additional structure not visible in the Grothendieck group. For instance, the categories of modules over the cyclotomic KLR algebra associated to a Lie algebra g of type ADE have Grothendieck groups isomorphic to highest weight integrable representations of the quantum group Uq(g), while their traces are isomorphic to Weyl modules over the current algebra of g. Webster introduced a generalization of cyclotomic KLR algebras called tensor product algebras. Modules over the these algebras categorify tensor products of highest weight integrable modules of Uq(g). In this talk, we investigate the trace of Webster's tensor product categorification, and show that it is isomorphic to a tensor product of Weyl modules. This is joint work with Christopher Leonard (Virginia).