lie-algebras-and-their-representations
Source code for my notes on representations of semisimple Lie algebras and Olivier Mathieu's classification of simple weight modules
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- cac9d4ec2365b20519c6102c53f0d297d52ab81c
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- Pablo <pablo-escobar@riseup.net>
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Added a proof of the fact that any irreducible cuspidal representation is given by M[lambda] for some coherent family lambda
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1 file changed, 39 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/sections/mathieu.tex b/sections/mathieu.tex
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
\end{definition}
\begin{definition}
- A weight \(\mathfrak{g}\)-module is called
- \emph{an admissible} if \(\dim V_\lambda\) is bounded. The lowest upper bound
- for \(\dim V_\lambda\) is called \emph{the degree of \(V\)}.
+ A weight \(\mathfrak{g}\)-module is called \emph{an admissible} if \(\dim
+ V_\lambda\) is bounded. The lowest upper bound for \(\dim V_\lambda\) is
+ called \emph{the degree of \(V\)}.
\end{definition}
\begin{example}
@@ -143,18 +143,49 @@
\(\mathcal{M}^{\operatorname{ss}} \cong \operatorname{Ext}(V)\).
\end{theorem}
-% TODO: Add a proof!
-% TODO: V is a submodule because of the definition of the semisimplification
-% TODO: All weights in the coset occur because V is cuspidal
-% TODO: The dimension of the weight spaces of V is maximal because Ext is
-% an irreducible coherent family
% TODO: Define the notation for M[mu] somewhere else
+% TODO: Note somewhere else that the support of a cuspidal module is an entire
+% Q-coset
\begin{proposition}
Let \(V\) be a cuspidal representation of \(\mathfrak{g}\) and take any
weight \(\lambda\) of \(V\). Then \(V \cong
(\operatorname{Ext}(V))[\lambda]\).
\end{proposition}
+\begin{proof}
+ Fix some coherent extension \(\mathcal{M}\) of \(V\), so that \(V\) is a
+ subquotient of \(\mathcal{M}\). Since \(V\) is irreducible, it can be
+ realized as the quotient of consecutive terms of a composition series \(0 =
+ \mathcal{M}_0 \subset \mathcal{M}_1 \subset \cdots \subset \mathcal{M}_n =
+ \mathcal{M}\). But
+ \[
+ \operatorname{Ext}(V)
+ \cong \mathcal{M}^{\operatorname{ss}}
+ = \bigoplus_j \mfrac{\mathcal{M}_{j + 1}}{\mathcal{M}_j},
+ \]
+ so that \(V\) is contained in \(\operatorname{Ext}(V)\).
+
+ Furtheremore, the irreducibility of \(V\) implies \(V \subset
+ (\operatorname{Ext}(V))[\lambda]\), and \(V_\mu \subset
+ \operatorname{Ext}(V)_\mu\) for any \(\mu \in \mathfrak{h}^*\). Hence it
+ suffices to show that \(V_\mu = \operatorname{Ext}(V)_\mu\) for any \(\mu \in
+ \lambda + Q\). But this is already clear from the fact that
+ \(\operatorname{Ext}(V)\) is irreducible as a coherent family: given \(v \in
+ V_\mu\), \(H \in \mathfrak{h}\) and \(X \in
+ C_{\mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{g})}(\mathfrak{h})\) we find
+ \[
+ H X v = X H v = \mu(H) \cdot X v,
+ \]
+ so that \(V_\mu\) is a
+ \(C_{\mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{g})}(\mathfrak{h})\)-submodule of
+ \(\operatorname{Ext}(V)_\mu\).
+
+ Since \(V\) is cuspidal and \(\mu \in \lambda + Q\), \(V_\mu \ne 0\) and
+ hence \(V_\mu = \operatorname{Ext}(V)_\mu\) -- because
+ \(\operatorname{Ext}(V)_\mu\) is an irreducible
+ \(C_{\mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{g})}(\mathfrak{h})\)-module.
+\end{proof}
+
\begin{theorem}[Mathieu]
Let \(\mathcal{M}\) be an irreducible coherent family and \(\mu \in
\mathfrak{h}^*\). The following conditions are equivalent.