Combinatorial Fock spaces and quantum symmetric pairs

Abstract: The natural representation of the quantized affine algebra of type A can be defined via the deformed Fock space by Misra and Miwa. This relates the classes of Weyl modules for a type A quantum group at a root of unity to the action of the quantized affine algebra as the rank tends towards infinity. In this paper we investigate the situation outside of type A. In classical types, we construct embeddings of the Grothendieck group of finite dimensional modules for the corresponding quatum group at a root of unity into Fock spaces of different charges and define an action of an affine quantum symmetric pair that plays the role of the quantized affine algebra. We describe how the action is related to the linkage principal for quantum groups at a root of unity and tensor product multiplicities.