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Whittaker modules for the planar Galilean conformal algebra and its central extension

Representation Theory 2020-08-19 v2

Abstract

Let G\mathcal{G} be the planar Galilean conformal algebra and G~\widetilde{\mathcal{G}} be its universal central extension. Then G\mathcal{G} (resp. G~\widetilde{\mathcal{G}}) admits a triangular decomposition: G=G+G0G\mathcal{G}=\mathcal{G}^{+}\oplus\mathcal{G}^{0}\oplus\mathcal{G}^{-} (resp. G~=G~+G~0G~\widetilde{\mathcal{G}}=\widetilde{\mathcal{G}}^{+}\oplus\widetilde{\mathcal{G}}^{0}\oplus\widetilde{\mathcal{G}}^{-}). In this paper, we study universal and generic Whittaker G\mathcal{G}-modules (resp. G~\widetilde{\mathcal{G}}-modules) of type ϕ\phi, where ϕ:G+=G~+C\phi:\mathcal{G}^{+}=\widetilde{\mathcal{G}}^{+}\longrightarrow\mathbb{C} is a Lie algebra homomorphism. We classify the isomorphism classes of universal and generic Whittaker modules. Moreover, we show that a generic Whittaker modules of type ϕ\phi is irreducible if and only if ϕ\phi is nonsingular. For the nonsingular case, we completely determine the Whittaker vectors in universal and generic Whittaker modules. For the singular case, we concretely construct some proper submodules of generic Whittaker modules.

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@article{arxiv.2007.04046,
  title  = {Whittaker modules for the planar Galilean conformal algebra and its central extension},
  author = {Qiufan Chen and Yufeng Yao and Hengyun Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.04046},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

26 pages.Some proofs are simplified