A reduction theorem for highest weight modules over toroidal Lie algebras (Q1771551)

A natural construction of modules over toroidal Lie algebras \(\mathfrak{g}\) is via induction from a parabolic subalgebra, whose Levi components are proper toroidal subalgebras of \(\mathfrak{g}\). The paper under review develops reduction techniques to study the structure of such induced modules. To start with the authors give a complete description of all Borel subalgebras of \(\mathfrak{g}\), containing a fixed Cartan subalgebra. In particular, it is shown that in almost all cases there are infinitely many conjugacy classes of Borel subalgebras. To each Borel subalgebra \(\mathfrak{b}\) of \(\mathfrak{g}\) the authors associate a proper toroidal subalgebra \(\mathfrak{k}\) of \(\mathfrak{g}\), obtaining a kind of parabolic decomposition for \(\mathfrak{g}\). The first main result of the paper is that under some natural assumptions any subquotient of an induced module is also induced. As a consequence one obtains that ``almost all'' induced modules are irreducible. The second main result is an equivalence of \(\mathcal{O}\)-type categories for the algebras \(\mathfrak{g}\) and \(\mathfrak{k}\). The ``extra'' assumptions for these results are that the restriction of the highest weight one works with onto the part of the center, lying in the commutator of \(\mathfrak{k}\), is non-zero.