Relative extremal projectors (Q1869989)

The theory of extremal projectors was originated by \textit{R. M. Asherova, Yu. F. Smirnov} and \textit{V. Tolstoy} in [Teor. Mat. Fiz. 8, 255-271 (1971; Zbl 0223.22019)] and later developed for a reductive complex Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\) by \textit{D. P. Zhelobenko} [see Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Mat. 52, 758-773 (1988; Zbl 0659.17010)]. Roughly speaking an extremal projector is an operator on the universal Verma module that projects onto the highest weight space along all other spaces. In the paper under review the authors develop the notion of a relative extremal projector, which, roughly speaking, is an operator on the universal Verma module that projects onto the highest \(\mathfrak{l}\)-extreme subrepresentation of \(\mathfrak{g}\), where \(\mathfrak{l}\) is a regular reductive subalgebra. The authors prove an existence theorem, an infinite factorization theorem and a summation formula for the relative extremal projectors. In particular, they obtain a new factorization of the original extremal projector.