Representations associated to involutions on algebraic groups and modular Harish-Chandra modules. (Q1779471)

The author introduces characteristic \(p\) analogues of Harish-Chandra modules for Lie groups. More specifically, let \(G\) denote a semisimple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic. The author then considers the fixed point group \(K\) relative to an involution in \(G\). His first achievement is to classify the irreducible modules for the subgroup schemes \(KG_r\), \(r>0\). Here \(G_r\) denotes the \(r\)-th Frobenius subgroup scheme in \(G\). Next he provides also a description of the injective envelopes of these modules. In both cases it turns out that the modules in question are tensor products of twisted \(K\)-modules by restriction to \(KG_r\) of appropriate \(G\)-modules. Finally, he introduces the modular Harish-Chandra modules by replacing the usual setup consisting of a maximal compact subgroup in a Lie group by the subgroup \(K\) in \(G\). It turns out that the finite dimensional irreducible Harish-Chandra modules for this theory coincide with the irreducible \(KG_1\)-modules above. The techniques of proofs in this paper are a combination of methods from modular representation theory (e.g. the Steinberg tensor product theorem), the theory of restricted enveloping algebras (a la Kac-Weisfeiler), and ordinary Harish-Chandra module theory.