Multiplicity-free primitive ideals associated with rigid nilpotent orbits (Q2249230)

Let \(G\) be a complex simple algebraic group and denote by \(\mathfrak{g}\) the Lie algebra of \(G\). For a nilpotent element \(e\) of \(\mathfrak{g}\) denote by \(U(\mathfrak{g},e)\) the finite \(W\)-algebra associated with \((\mathfrak{g},e)\) and by \(\mathcal{E}\) the set of all one-dimensional representations of \(U(\mathfrak{g},e)\). Moreover, let \(G_e\) be the centralizer of \(e\) in \(G\). In the main result of the paper under review the author proves that the subset \(\mathcal{E}^\Gamma\) of \(\mathcal{E}\) consisting of all elements fixed by the action of the component group \(\Gamma\) of \(G_e\) on \(\mathcal{E}\) is non-empty. In particular, all finite \(W\)-algebras associated with \(\mathfrak{g}\) admit one-dimensional representations. For rigid nilpotent elements in exceptional Lie algebras he find irreducible highest weight \(\mathfrak{g}\)-module whose annihilators in the universal enveloping algebra \(U(\mathfrak{g})\) of \(\mathfrak{g}\) come from one-dimensional representations of \(U(\mathfrak{g},e)\) via Skryabin's equivalence. It is then proved that the Zariski closure of every nilpotent orbit in \(\mathfrak{g}\) is the associated variety of a multiplicity-free (and so completely prime) primitive ideal of \(U(\mathfrak{g})\).