B2 adjoint crystal ($B(2{\Lambda }_2)$)

With long-first simple roots ${\alpha }_1={\epsilon }_1-{\epsilon }_2$, ${\alpha }_2={\epsilon }_2$, the Adjoint representation has highest weight ${\epsilon }_1+{\epsilon }_2=2{\Lambda }_2$. Its crystal basis has one vertex $x_{\beta }$ for every root and two distinct zero-weight vertices $z_1,z_2$. The color-one strings are $x_{{\epsilon }_1}\to x_{{\epsilon }_2}$, $x_{{\alpha }_1}\to z_1\to x_{-{\alpha }_1}$, and $x_{-{\epsilon }_2}\to x_{-{\epsilon }_1}$. The color-two strings are $x_{{\epsilon }_1+{\epsilon }_2}\to x_{{\epsilon }_1}\to x_{{\epsilon }_1-{\epsilon }_2}$, $x_{{\epsilon }_2}\to z_2\to x_{-{\epsilon }_2}$, and $x_{-{\epsilon }_1+{\epsilon }_2}\to x_{-{\epsilon }_1}\to x_{-{\epsilon }_1-{\epsilon }_2}$. All other edges vanish. One construction takes the component generated by $1\otimes 2$ in the tensor square of the crystal of the defining odd-orthogonal representation; the crystal tensor-product rule produces exactly these ten vertices. The equivariant isomorphism ${\Lambda }^2{\mathbb{C}}^5\cong {\mathfrak{so}}_5$ identifies its highest weight and representation.