Jucys-Murphy elements and Grothendieck groups for generalized rook monoids

Abstract: We consider a tower of generalized rook monoid algebras over the field $\mathbb{C}$ of complex numbers and observe that the Bratteli diagram associated to this tower is a simple graph. We construct simple modules and describe Jucys-Murphy elements for generalized rook monoid algebras. Over an algebraically closed field $\Bbbk$ of positive characteristic $p$, utilizing Jucys-Murphy elements of rook monoid algebras, for $0\leq i\leq p-1$ we define the corresponding $i$-restriction and $i$-induction functors along with two extra functors. On the direct sum $\mathcal{G}{\mathbb{C}}$ of the Grothendieck groups of module categories over rook monoid algebras over $\Bbbk$, these functors induce an action of the tensor product of the universal enveloping algebra $U(\hat{\mathfrak{sl}}_p(\mathbb{C}))$ and the monoid algebra $\mathbb{C}[\mathcal{B}]$ of the bicyclic monoid $\mathcal{B}$. Furthermore, we prove that $\mathcal{G}{\mathbb{C}}$ is isomorphic to the tensor product of the basic representation of $U(\hat{\mathfrak{sl}}{p}(\mathbb{C}))$ and the unique infinite-dimensional simple module over $\mathbb{C}[\mathcal{B}]$, and also exhibit that $\mathcal{G}{\mathbb{C}}$ is a bialgebra. Under some natural restrictions on the characteristic of $\Bbbk$, we outline the corresponding result for generalized rook monoids.