Irreducible modules over the divergence zero algebras and their \(q\)-analogues (Q2223765)

It is a well-known construction to experts that Shen-Lasson's functor \(F_b^\alpha\) (\(\alpha\in\mathbb{C}^d, b\in\mathbb{C}\)) provides a class of modules \(F_b^\alpha(V)\) over the Witt algebra \(\mathcal{W}_d\) for any weight \(\mathfrak{sl}_d\)-module \(V\). Let \(\widehat{\mathcal{L}_d}\) be the subalgebra of \(\mathcal{W}_d\) consisting of vector fields of divergence zero, and let \(\mathcal{L}_d\) be another subalgebra obtained from \(\widehat{\mathcal{L}_d}\) by removing its Cartan subalgebra. The paper under review determines the irreducibility of \(F_b^\alpha(V)\) as \(\widehat{\mathcal{L}_d}\)- or \(\mathcal{L}_d\)-modules for finite-dimensional or infinite-dimensional \(V\) by a unified method. This result is also generalized to the \(q\)-analogue algebras \(\widehat{\mathcal{L}_d}(q)\) and \(\mathcal{L}_d(q)\).