The Hall module of an exact category with duality

Abstract

We construct from a finitary exact category with duality a module over its Hall algebra, called the Hall module, encoding the first order self-dual extension structure of the category. We study in detail Hall modules arising from the representation theory of a quiver with involution. In this case we show that the Hall module is naturally a module over the specialized reduced sigma-analogue of the quantum Kac-Moody algebra attached to the quiver. For finite type quivers, we explicitly determine the decomposition of the Hall module into irreducible highest weight modules.

25 pages. Revised to improve presentation and strengthen results. Removed final section on self-dual Hall polynomials since it is not required for the main results