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The Annihilation theorem for the completely reducible Lie superalgebras

Representation Theory 2009-10-31 v1 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

A well known theorem of Duflo claims that the annihilator of a Verma module in the enveloping algebra of a complex semisimple Lie algebra is generated by its intersection with the centre. For a Lie superalgebra this result fails to be true. For instance, in the case of the orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra osp(1,2), Pinczon gave in [Pi] an example of a Verma module whose annihilator is not generated by its intersection with the centre of universal enveloping algebra. More generally, Musson produced in [Mu1] a family of such "singular" Verma modules for osp(1,2l) cases. In this article we give a necessary and sufficient condition on the highest weight of a \osp(1,2l)\osp(1,2l)-Verma module for its annihilator to be generated by its intersection with the centre. This answers a question of Musson.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/9904030,
  title  = {The Annihilation theorem for the completely reducible Lie superalgebras},
  author = {Maria Gorelik and Emmanuel Lanzmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9904030},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

28 pages, to appear in Inventiones mathematicae