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Whittaker Modules for Graded Lie Algebras

Representation Theory 2009-03-04 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we study Whittaker modules for graded Lie algebras. We define Whittaker modules for a class of graded Lie algebras and obtain a bijective correspondence between the set of isomorphism classes of Whittaker modules and the set of ideals of a polynomial ring, parallel to a result from the classical setting and the case of the Virasoro algebra. As a consequence of this, we obtain a classification of simple Whittaker modules for such algebras. Also, we study some concrete algebras as examples.

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@article{arxiv.0902.3801,
  title  = {Whittaker Modules for Graded Lie Algebras},
  author = {Bin Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3801},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11pages, fixed a number of errors

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