Symmetrizers and antisymmetrizers for the BMW algebra

Abstract

Let $n\in\mathds{N}$ and $B_n(r,q)$ be the generic Birman-Murakami-Wenzl algebra with respect to indeterminants $r$ and $q$. It is known that $B_n(r,q)$ has two distinct linear representations generated by two central elements of $B_n(r,q)$ called the symmetrizer and antisymmetrizer of $B_n(r,q)$. These generate for $n\ge 3$ the only one dimensional two sided ideals of $B_n(r,q)$ and generalize the corresponding notion for Hecke algebras of type $A$. The main result in this paper explicitly determines the coefficients of these elements with respect to the graphical basis of $B_n(r,q)$.