Infinite commutative product formulas for relative extremal projectors (Q2566193)

Given a regular reductive subalgebra \(\mathfrak{l}\) of a complex reductive Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\), the relative extremal projector associated to the pair \((\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{l})\) is the operator on the universal Verma module projecting onto the highest \(\mathfrak{l}\)-subrepresentation of \(\mathfrak{g}\) along the lower \(\mathfrak{l}\)-subrepresentations. The special case when \(\mathfrak{l}\) is a Cartan subalgebra of \(\mathfrak{g}\) gives the classical extremal projectors. In the paper under review the authors obtain a number of new infinite product expansions for the relative extremal projector. Some other interesting results and applications are presented. In particular, the authors give an explicit formula for the inverse of the Harish-Chandra isomorphism in terms of the extremal projector. Some conditions are also given determining when the relative extremal projector descends to a well-defined operator on a particular representation.