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Simple Virasoro modules which are locally finite over a positive part

Representation Theory 2017-05-10 v2

Abstract

We propose a very general construction of simple Virasoro modules generalizing and including both highest weight and Whittaker modules. This reduces the problem of classification of simple Virasoro modules which are locally finite over a positive part to classification of simple modules over a family of finite dimensional solvable Lie algebras. For one of these algebras all simple modules are classified by R. Block and we extend this classification to the next member of the family. As a result we recover many known but also construct a lot of new simple Virasoro modules. We also propose a revision of the setup for study of Whittaker modules.

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@article{arxiv.1205.5937,
  title  = {Simple Virasoro modules which are locally finite over a positive part},
  author = {Volodymyr Mazorchuk and Kaiming Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.5937},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

16 pages, some changes in examples (subsections 4.4. and 4.5) in version 2