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Ghost distributions on supersymmetric spaces II: basic classical superalgebras

Representation Theory 2023-07-14 v2

Abstract

We study ghost distributions on supersymmetric spaces for the case of basic classical Lie superalgebras. We introduce the notion of interlaced pairs, which are those for which both (g,k)(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k}) and (g,k)(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k}') admit Iwasawa decompositions. For such pairs we define a ghost algebra, generalizing the subalgebra of Ug\mathcal{U}\mathfrak{g} defined by Gorelik. We realize this algebra as an algebra of GG-equivariant operators on the supersymmetric space itself, and for certain pairs, the `special' ones, we realize our operators as twisted-equivariant differential operators on G/KG/K. We additionally show that the Harish-Chandra morphism is injective, compute its image for all rank one pairs, and provide a conjecture for the image when (g,k)(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k}) is interlaced.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2208.09866,
  title  = {Ghost distributions on supersymmetric spaces II: basic classical superalgebras},
  author = {Alexander Sherman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.09866},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

31 pages; minor typos and revisions changed in second version; accepted for publication in IMRN; comments welcome!

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