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Differential equations and singular vectors in Verma modules

Representation Theory 2020-06-30 v2

Abstract

Xu introduced a system of partial differential equations to investigate singular vectors in the Verma modules of highest weight λ\lambda over sl(n,C)\mathfrak{sl}(n,\mathbb{C}). He proved that the solution space of this system in the space of truncated power series is spanned by {σ(1)  σSn}\{\sigma(1)\ |\ \sigma\in S_n\}. We present an explicit formula of the solution sα(1)s_\alpha(1) for every positive root α\alpha and showed directly that sα(1)s_\alpha(1) is a polynomial if and only if λ+ρ,α\langle\lambda+\rho,\alpha\rangle is a nonnegative integer. From this, we can recover a formula of singular vectors given by Malikov et al.

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@article{arxiv.1503.06385,
  title  = {Differential equations and singular vectors in Verma modules},
  author = {Wei Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.06385},
  year   = {2020}
}

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11 pages

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