Generalised Witt algebras and idealizers

Graded rings and modules (associative rings and algebras) (16W50) Noncommutative algebraic geometry (14A22) Universal enveloping (super)algebras (17B35)

Abstract: Let

B b b k

be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, and let

G a m m a

be an additive subgroup of

B b b k

. Results of Kaplansky-Santharoubane and Su classify intermediate series representations of the generalised Witt algebra

W_{G} a m m a

in terms of three families, one parameterised by

{m a t h b b A}^{2}

and two by

{m a t h b b P}^{1}

. In this note, we use the first family to construct a homomorphism

P h i

from the enveloping algebra

U (W_{G} a m m a)

to a skew extension of

B b b k [a, b]

. We show that the image of

P h i

is contained in a (double) idealizer subring of this skew extension and that the representation theory of idealizers explains the three families. We further show that the image of

U (W_{G} a m m a)

under

P h i

is not left or right noetherian, giving a new proof that

U (W_{G} a m m a)

is not noetherian. We construct

P h i

as an application of a general technique to create ring homomorphisms from shift-invariant families of modules. Let

G

be an arbitrary group and let

A

be a

G

-graded ring. A graded

A

-module

M

is an intermediate series module if

M_{g}

is one-dimensional for all

g i n G

. Given a shift-invariant family of intermediate series

A

-modules parametrised by a scheme

X

, we construct a homomorphism

P h i

from

A

to a skew-extension of

B b b k [X]

. The kernel of

P h i

consists of those elements which annihilate all modules in

X

.

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