Lie conformal superalgebras and duality of modules over linearly compact Lie superalgebras (Q2219328): Difference between revisions

A Lie superalgebra \(\mathfrak{g}\) is said to be linearly compact when it is endowed with a topology such that: as a topological space, \(\mathfrak{g}\) is complete, and there exists a fundamental system of neighborhoods of \(0\) which consists of finite-codimensional subspaces. The classification of infinite-dimensional simple linearly compact Lie superalgebras was given by \textit{V. G. Kac} [Adv. Math. 139, No. 1, 1--55 (1998; Zbl 0929.17026)] It is known that linearly compact Lie superalgebras are closely related to the so-called Lie conformal superalgebras. One of the goals of the authors of this paper is to further the development of the representation theory of linearly compact Lie superalgebras by studying their conformal counterparts. The authors define Lie conformal superalgebras of type \((r,s)\) in Definition~2.1 and their associated annihilation Lie superalgebras in Definition~2.4. These definitions generalize the usual definitions of Lie conformal superalgebras (which are of type \((1,0)\)) and their associated annihilation Lie superalgebras. Then, in Definition~3.1, the authors define conformal modules for Lie conformal superalgebras of type \((r,s)\). Under a few assumptions (see Assumptions~3.3), they prove that every conformal module over a Lie conformal superalgebra of type \((r,s)\) admits a structure of a continuous module for a certain extension of the associated annihilation Lie superalgebra (see Proposition~3.4). The main result of this article is Theorem~3.17, where the authors prove that: the conformal dual (see Definition~3.6) of the generalized Verma module (see page~16) associated to a finite-dimensional module \(F\) is isomorphic to the generalized Verma module associated to the shifted dual \(F^\vee\). The authors finish the paper by proving that the linearly compact Lie superalgebras \(W(r, s)\), \(K(1, n)\), \(E(5, 10)\), \(E(3, 6)\) and \(E(3, 8)\) are annihilation Lie superalgebras associated to certain Lie conformal superalgebras of type \((r,s)\) in Sections 4--8.