A criterion for irreducibility of parabolic baby Verma modules of reductive Lie algebras (Q2197772)

Let \(\mathfrak{g}\) be the Lie algebra of a reductive algebraic group \(G\) that is defined over an algebraically closed field of prime characteristic \(p\). \textit{E. M. Friedlander} and \textit{B. J. Parshall} [Am. J. Math. 112, No. 3, 375--395 (1990; Zbl 0714.17007)] asked to find necessary and sufficient conditions for the irreducibility of a \(\mathfrak{g}\)-module that is induced from an irreducible module over a parabolic subalgebra \(\mathfrak{p}\) of \(\mathfrak{g}\). \textit{V. G. Kac} [Usp. Mat. Nauk 27, No. 5(167), 237--238 (1972; Zbl 0262.17002)] showed that every irreducible \(\mathfrak{sl}_3(k)\)-module with non-zero \(p\)-character is induced from a suitable irreducible module over a parabolic subalgebra. Moreover, the authors of the present paper [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 219, No. 4, 760--766 (2015; Zbl. 1332.17008)] determined when \(\mathfrak{sl}_4 (k)\)-modules induced from irreducible modules with \(p\)-regular high weight over the parabolic subalgebra associated to a \(p\)-character in standard Levi form remain irreducible. In the paper under review the authors prove the irreducibility of modules induced from certain parabolic subalgebras \(\mathfrak{p}\) of \(\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{sl}_n(k)\), \(\mathfrak{so}_n(k)\), or \(\mathfrak{sp}_{2n} (k)\) under the hypothesis that the \(p\)-character has standard Levi form and the high weight of the irreducible \(\mathfrak{p}\)-module is \(p\)-regular. As a consequence, some results of \textit{J. C. Jantzen} [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 126, No. 2, 223--257 (1999; Zbl 0939.17008)] for modules over \(\mathfrak{g} =\mathfrak{sl}_n(k)\) or \(\mathfrak{so}_{2n+1}(k)\) with subregular nilpotent \(p\)-characters are recovered. In a related paper [Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. - Simon Stevin 23, No. 3, 357--371 (2016; Zbl 1418.17020)] \textit{C. Zhang} proves that a \(\mathfrak{g}\)-module induced from an irreducible module over a parabolic subalgebra \(\mathfrak{p}\) of a reductive Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\) is irreducible exactly when a certain polynomial function on the linear dual of a Cartan subalgebra of \(\mathfrak{g}\) does not vanish on the high weight of the irreducible \(\mathfrak{p}\)-module. For this result to hold the author has to assume in addition to the standard assumptions on \(\mathfrak{g}\) and \(p\) that the \(p\)-character of the induced module vanishes on the unipotent radical of the opposite parabolic subalgebra of \(\mathfrak{p}\). In a more recent paper [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 223, No. 3, 1193--1197 (2019; Zbl 1446.17020)] \textit{C. Zhang} shows that his condition is sufficient without the additional assumption on the unipotent radical. Since for a \(p\)-character of standard Levi form Zhang's irreducibility criterion only applies to irreducible \(\mathfrak{p}\)-modules whose high weight is not \(p\)-regular, the results of the paper under review complement Zhang's irreducibility criterion.