Higher deformations of Lie algebra representations I. (Q1996214)

Let \(G\) be an affine algebraic group over an algebraically closed field \(\mathbb{K}\) of characteristic \(p > 0\), and let \(\mathfrak{g}\) denote the restricted Lie algebra of \(G\). For a linear form \(\chi\) on \(\mathfrak{g}\), denote by \(U_\chi(\mathfrak{g})\) the \(\chi\)-reduced enveloping algebra of \(\mathfrak{g}\). In the paper [Am. J. Math. 110, 1055--1093 (1988; Zbl 0673.17010)], \textit{E. M. Friedlander} and \textit{B. J. Parshall} asked whether the algebras \(U_{\chi}(\mathfrak{g})\) have natural analogues corresponding to the infinitesimal Frobenius kernels \(G_r\) of \(G\) for \(r > 1\). In the paper under review the author answers this question by defining a family of higher universal enveloping algebras \(U^{[r]}(G)\) for \(r\in \mathbb{N}\). When \(G\) is reductive, the algebras \(U^{[r]}(G)\) shares many similarities with the universal enveloping algebras. The author shows that it is possible to find a notion of \(p\)-th powers for \(U^{[r]}(G)\), which allows to define higher analogues \(U_{\chi}^{[r]}(G)\) of the algebras \(U_\chi(\mathfrak{g})\), where \(\chi \in \mathfrak{g}^\ast\). He proves that each irreducible \(U^{[r]}(G)\) -module is an irreducible \(U_{\chi}^{[r]}(G)\)-module for some linear form \(\chi\) on \(\mathfrak{g}\), and every irreducible \(U_{\chi}^{[r]}(G)\)-module is a quotient of a higher baby Verma module \(Z_{\chi}^r(\lambda)\). Also, he examines the particular case of the algebraic group \(G = \mathrm{SL}_2\), and in the final section he provides some results on the Hopf algebraic structure of the higher universal enveloping algebras.