Contravariant forms on Whittaker modules

DOI10.1090/PROC/15205MaRDI QIDQ5146533zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adam Brown, Anna Romanov

Publication date 26 January 2021

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08286

zbMATH Keywords

contravariant formsreductive Lie algebrasWhittaker modules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Representations of Lie and real algebraic groups: algebraic methods (Verma modules, etc.) (22E47)

Abstract: Let $mathfrakg$ be a complex semisimple Lie algebra. We give a classification of contravariant forms on the nondegenerate Whittaker $mathfrakg$-modules $Y(chi,eta)$ introduced by Kostant. We prove that the set of all contravariant forms on $Y(chi,eta)$ forms a vector space whose dimension is given by the cardinality of the Weyl group of $mathfrakg$. We also describe a procedure for parabolically inducing contravariant forms. As a corollary, we deduce the existence of the Shapovalov form on a Verma module, and provide a formula for the dimension of the space of contravariant forms on the degenerate Whittaker modules $M(chi,eta)$ introduced by McDowell.

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