Existence of Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals for nonexceptional types

Abstract

Using the methods of Kang et al. and recent results on the characters of Kirillov-Reshetikhin modules by Nakajima and Hernandez, the existence of Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals B^{r,s} is established for all nonexceptional affine types. We also prove that the crystals B^{r,s} of type B_n^{(1)}, D_n^{(1)}, and A_{2n-1}^{(2)} are isomorphic to recently constructed combinatorial crystals for r not a spin node.

23 pages; version that appeared in Representation Theory and erratum added