%0 Journal Article %T Affine structures and a tableau model for E_6 crystals %A Brant Jones %A Anne Schilling %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2010.07.041 %X We provide the unique affine crystal structure for type E_6^{(1)} Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals corresponding to the multiples of fundamental weights s Lambda_1, s Lambda_2, and s Lambda_6 for all s \geq 1 (in Bourbaki's labeling of the Dynkin nodes, where 2 is the adjoint node). Our methods introduce a generalized tableaux model for classical highest weight crystals of type E and use the order three automorphism of the affine E_6^{(1)} Dynkin diagram. In addition, we provide a conjecture for the affine crystal structure of type E_7^{(1)} Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals corresponding to the adjoint node. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2442v2