Modules for double affine Lie algebras (Q256513): Difference between revisions

Given a Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\) with a fixed triangular decomposition \(\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{n}_-\oplus \mathfrak{h}\oplus\mathfrak{n}_+\), one can define ``Verma type modules'' which are \(\mathfrak{g}\)-modules induced from simple \(\mathfrak{h}\)-modules with the trivial action of \(\mathfrak{n}_+\). Depending on the nature of the triangular decomposition in questions, such modules are called \textit{Verma modules} or \textit{generalized Verma modules} or \textit{Verma type modules} or \textit{imaginary Verma modules}. The paper under review studies various types of such modules for double affine Lie algebras and obtains for them certain irreducibility results. A typical such result is that the module in question is irreducible if the action of some central element of the algebra is non-zero. In case this induced module is reducible, it has a unique simple quotient. The paper also contains some results describing various properties of this simple quotient, in particular, the question of finite dimensionality of its weight spaces is addressed.