For the affine Hecke algebras of type A, Grojnowski has developed a combinatorial labelling of irreducible modules using formal characters and crystal operators, also obtaining certain special branching rules.
In this thesis, the same approach is applied to affine Hecke algebras of type B, where it does not lead to full results in all cases. For certain eigenvalues of lattice operators only partial results can be achieved.
One main result is the irreducibility of certain modules that are induced from type A to type B, giving a one-to-one corresondance of irreducible objects in certain full subcategories of the module categories in type A and type B.
This yields an analogous combinatorial description in type B as in type A, including branching rules.