Cohomology of line bundles on Schubert varieties in the Kac-Moody setting (Q876338)

The aim of this paper is to study the cohomology modules of line bundles on Schubert varieties given by non-dominant weights in the Kac-Moody setting. The base field in the field of complex numbers. Let \(G\) be a Kac-Moody Lie algebra associated to a generalized symmetrizable Cartan matrix. The author also uses \(G\) for Kac-Moody group associated to \(G\). Let \(B\) be a Borel subgroup of \(G\), and, for any element \(w\) in the Weyl group \(W\), denote by \(X(w)\) the associated Schubert variety in \(G/B\). Consider a character \(\lambda\) of \(B\), and denote by \(L_{\lambda}\) the line bundle on \(X(w)\) corresponding to the 1-dimensional representation of \(B\) given by the character \(\lambda\). Let \(H^i(X(w),L_{\lambda})\) be the cohomology module. When \(\lambda\) is non-dominant, \(X(w)=G/B\) and \(G\) is not finite-dimensional, the equivalent of the Borel-Weil-Bott theorem is known to be true and was proved independently by S.~Kumar and O.~Mathieu. When \(G\) is finite-dimensional, a systematic study of the cohomology modules of the line bundles on Schubert varieties given by non-dominant weights was done by \textit{V.~Balaji, S.~Senthamarai Kannan} and \textit{K. V. Subrahmanyam} [Transform. Groups 9, No.~2, 105--131 (2004; Zbl 1078.14071)]. The present paper is a continuation of this study. Besides, several results here are new even in the finite-dimensional case. The author describes the indices of the top and the least non-vanishing cohomologies \(H^i(X(w),L_{\lambda})\). Also he proves certain surjectivity results for maps between some cohomology modules. The main technical tool is a delicate use of the Bott-Samelson inductive machinery that works in the Kac-Moody setting also.