Ideals in the enveloping algebra of the positive Witt algebra

DOI10.1007/S10468-019-09896-2MaRDI QIDQ2199651zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexey V. Petukhov, Susan J. Sierra

Publication date 11 September 2020

Published in Algebras and Representation Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10029

zbMATH Keywords

ascending chain conditionPoisson algebraPoisson Gelfand-Kirillov dimensionpositive Witt algebraWitt algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Chain conditions on other classes of submodules, ideals, subrings, etc.; coherence (associative rings and algebras) (16P70) Growth rate, Gelfand-Kirillov dimension (16P90) Universal enveloping algebras of Lie algebras (16S30) Poisson algebras (17B63) Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Graded Lie (super)algebras (17B70)

Abstract: Let $W_{+}$ be the positive Witt algebra, which has a $C$-basis $e_n:nin{Z}_{geq1}$, with Lie bracket $[e_i,e_j]=(j-i)e_{i+j}$. We study the two-sided ideal structure of the universal enveloping algebra $U(W_{+})$ of $W_{+}$. We show that if $I$ is a (two-sided) ideal of $U(W_{+})$ generated by quadratic expressions in the $e_i$, then $U(W_{+})/I$ has finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension, and that such ideals satisfy the ascending chain condition. We conjecture that analogous facts hold for arbitrary ideals of $U(W_{+})$, and verify a version of these conjectures for radical Poisson ideals of the symmetric algebra $S(W_{+})$.

Review text

Let \(W_+\) denote the Witt algebra over a field of characteristic \(0\), i.e., an algebra generated by elements \(e_n\), \(n\in\mathbb{Z}_{>0}\), modulo relations \([e_i,e_j]=(j-i)e_{i+j}\). In [\textit{S. J. Sierra} and \textit{C. Walton}, Adv. Math. 262, 239--260 (2014; Zbl 1297.14006)], it was proved that \(U(W_+)\) is neither left nor right Noetherian. However, there exist the following two conjectures. Conjecture 1: The enveloping algebra \(U(W_+)\) has just infinite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension in the sense that if \(I\) is a nonzero ideal of \(U(W_+)\) then the GK-dimension of \(U(W_+)/I\) is finite. Conjecture 2: The two-sided ideals of \(U(W_+)\) satisfy the ascending chain condition: all strictly ascending chains of ideals are finite. In the present paper, weaker variants of these conditions are proved. It is proved that if \(I\) is a two-sided ideal of \(U(W_+)\) generated by quadratic expressions in the \(e_i\) then \(U(W_+)/I\) has finite Gelfand-Kirillov dimension, and that such ideals satisfy the ascending chain condition.

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