Signatures of invariant Hermitian forms on irreducible highest-weight modules

DOI10.1215/00127094-2008-004MaRDI QIDQ2481523zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wai Ling Yee

Publication date 10 April 2008

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601512, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.237.485

zbMATH Keywords

Hermitian formhighest weight moduleKazhdan-Lusztig polynomialsingularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Representations of Lie and real algebraic groups: algebraic methods (Verma modules, etc.) (22E47)

Abstract: Perhaps the most important problem in representation theory in the 1970s and early 1980s was the determination of the multiplicity of composition factors in a Verma module. This problem was settled by the proof of the Kazhdan-Lusztig Conjecture which states that the multiplicities may be computed via Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials. In this paper, we introduce signed Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials, a variation of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials which encodes signature information in addition to composition factor multiplicities and Jantzen filtration level. Careful consideration of Gabber and Joseph's proof of Kazhdan and Lusztig's inductive formula for computing Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials leads to an inductive formula for the signed Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials. We use these polynomials to compute the signature of an invariant Hermitian form on an irreducible highest weight module. Such a formula has applications to unitarity testing.

Review text

Let \(\mathfrak{g}_0\) be a real Lie algebra and \(\mathfrak{g}\) be its complexification. A Hermitian form on a \(\mathfrak{g}\)-module \(V\) is called invariant provided that \[ \langle Xv,w\rangle+\langle v,\widetilde{X}w\rangle=0 \] for every \(X\in \mathfrak{g}\) and \(v,w\in V\), where \(\widetilde{X}\) denotes the complex conjugate of \(X\) with respect to the real form \(\mathfrak{g}_0\) of \(\mathfrak{g}\). In the paper under review the author finds a formula for the signature character of an invariant Hermitian form on an irreducible highest-weight module of regular infinitesimal character. The answer is given in terms of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials. The author also presents a survey of results concerning Verma modules in the category \(\mathcal{O}\).

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