For the affine Hecke algebra of type A at roots of unity, we make explicit
the correspondence between geometrically constructed simple modules and
combinatorially constructed simple modules and prove the modular branching
rule. The latter generalizes work by Vazirani.
We show that the canonical basis associated to any highest weight
U_{v}(hat{sl}_{e})-module can be decomposed on the canonical basis of its
corresponding U_{v}({sl}_{\infty})-module. We establish that the transition
matrix associated to this decomposition is unitriangular with coefficients in
Z[v] and give a procedure to compute them. We conjecture these coefficients are
in fact in N[v]. This provides a natural quantization of a theorem by Geck and
Rouquier on the factorization of decomposition matrices associated to
Ariki-Koike algebras.