Abstract
To every finite-dimensional irreducible representation V of the quantum group Uε(g) where ε is a primitive lth root of unity (l odd) and g is a finite-dimensional complex simple Lie algebra, de Concini, Kac and Procesi have associated a conjugacy class C V in the adjoint group G of g. We describe explicitly, when g is of type A n , B n , C n , or D n , the representations associated to the conjugacy classes of minimal positive dimension. We call such representations fundamental and prove that, for any conjugacy class, there is an associated representation which is contained in a tensor product of fundamental representations.
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