The branching problem for generalized Verma modules, with application to the pair (so(7), LieG₂)

DOI10.1142/S0219498814500340MaRDI QIDQ2874698zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Publication date 8 August 2014

Published in Journal of Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3970

\((so(7), \operatorname{Lie}G_{2})\)branching problems character formulas generalized Verma modules non-symmetric pairs singular vectors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Universal enveloping (super)algebras (17B35) Representations of Lie and real algebraic groups: algebraic methods (Verma modules, etc.) (22E47)

Abstract: We discuss the branching problem for generalized Verma modules

M_{l} a m b d a (m a t h f r a k g, m a t h f r a k p)

applied to couples of reductive Lie algebras

. The analysis is based on projecting character formulas to quantify the branching, and on the action of the center of

to explicitly construct singular vectors realizing part of the branching. We demonstrate the results on the pair

m a t h r m L i e G_{2} h o o k r i g h t a r r o w s o (7)

for both strongly and weakly compatible with

i (m a t h r m L i e G_{2})

parabolic subalgebras and a large class of inducing representations.

Review text

Let \(\mathfrak{g}\) be a complex simple Lie algebra and \(\mathfrak{p}\) a parabolic subalgebra of \(\mathfrak{g}\). Let \(M_\lambda(\mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{p})\) denote the generalized Verma module for \(\mathfrak{g}\) induced from \(\mathfrak{p}\) with highest weight \(\lambda\). The branching problem for \(M_\lambda(\mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{p})\) with respect to an embedding \(\iota:\bar{\mathfrak{g}} \hookrightarrow \mathfrak{g}\) of a reductive Lie algebra \(\bar{\mathfrak{g}}\) into \(\mathfrak{g}\) has received a lot of attention in representation theory and also in parabolic geometry. Here the branching problem for \(M_\lambda(\mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{p})\) with respect to an embedding \(\iota:\bar{\mathfrak{g}} \hookrightarrow \mathfrak{g}\) means to study how the \(\mathfrak{g}\)-module \(M_\lambda(\mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{p})\) behaves or decomposes as an \(\iota(\bar{\mathfrak{g}})\)-module. Such a study is carefully investigated especially when \(\iota(\bar{\mathfrak{g}})\) is strongly compatible (see, for example, \textit{T. Kobayashi} [Transform. Groups 17, No. 2, 523--546 (2012; Zbl 1257.22014)] and [\textit{T. Kobayashi} et al., ``Branching laws for Verma modules and applications in parabolic geometry. I, preprint (2013), \url{arXiv:1305.6040}]).NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper under review concerns a branching problem for \(M_\lambda(\mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{p})\) not only for strongly compatible \(\iota(\bar{\mathfrak{g}})\) but also what the authors call weakly compatible \(\iota(\bar{\mathfrak{g}})\). If \(M_\lambda(\mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{p})|_{\iota(\bar{\mathfrak{g}})}\) denotes \(M_\lambda(\mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{p})\) as an \(\iota(\bar{\mathfrak{g}})\)-module, then, for such \(\iota(\bar{\mathfrak{g}})\), the authors study when \(M_\lambda(\mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{p})|_{\iota(\bar{\mathfrak{g}})}\) decomposes into a direct sum of generalized Verma modules \(M_\mu(\iota(\bar{\mathfrak{g}}),\iota(\bar{\mathfrak{p}}))\) for \(\iota(\bar{\mathfrak{g}})\), where \(\bar{\mathfrak{p}}\) is a parabolic subalgebra of \(\bar{\mathfrak{g}}\). If it is the case, then they also study a construction of certain singular vectors in \(M_\lambda(\mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{p})\). In the last section they demonstrate their results by the example of \(\iota: \operatorname{Lie}(G_2) \hookrightarrow so(7)\).

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