B2 spin crystal ($B({\Lambda }_2)$)

For the B2 root system with ${\alpha }_1={\epsilon }_1-{\epsilon }_2$ long and ${\alpha }_2={\epsilon }_2$ short, the spin fundamental weight is ${\Lambda }_2=({\epsilon }_1+{\epsilon }_2)/2$. Its four-dimensional highest-weight representation has the minuscule weight orbit $\frac{1}{2}(\pm {\epsilon }_1\pm {\epsilon }_2)$, each of multiplicity one. The crystal basis is the chain $++\stackrel{2}{\to }+-\stackrel{1}{\to }-+\stackrel{2}{\to }--$, where signs denote the coordinates. Each Kashiwara operator subtracts its indicated simple root; the sl2 Lie algebra strings have length one. This fixes every edge and gives a connected highest-weight graph with the correct character.