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Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a complex simple Lie algebra and $L(\lambda)$ be a highest weight module of $\mathfrak{g}$ with highest weight $\lambda-\rho$, where $\rho$ is half the sum of positive roots. A simple $\mathfrak{g}$-module…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Zhanqiang Bai , Jing Jiang , Rui Wang

Let G be a semi simple linear algebraic group over a field of characteristic zero and let V be a finite dimensional irreducible G-module with highest weight vector v. Let P in G be the parabolic subgroup fixing v and let g=Lie(G). We get a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Helge Øystein Maakestad

Recently, Wang and the second author constructed a bar involution and canonical basis for a quasi-permutation module of the Hecke algebra associated to a type B Weyl group $W$, where the basis is parameterized by left cosets of a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Zachary Carlini , Yaolong Shen

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra over $\mathbb{C}$. A $\operatorname{Y}(\mathfrak{g})$-module is said to be weight if it is a weight $\mathfrak{g}$-module. We give a complete classification of simple weight…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Yikun Zhou , Yilan Tan , Limeng Xia

We establish a maximal parabolic version of the Kazhdan-Lusztig conjecture \cite[Conjecture 5.10]{CKW} for the BGG category $\mathcal{O}_{k,\zeta}$ of $\mathfrak{q}(n)$-modules of "$\pm \zeta$-weights", where $k\leq n$ and…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Chih-Whi Chen , Shun-Jen Cheng

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a classial Lie algebra and $\mathfrak{p}$ be a maximal parabolic subalgebra. Let $M$ be a generalized Verma module induced from a one dimensional representation of $\mathfrak{p}$. Such $M$ is called a scalar type…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Zhanqiang Bai , Jing Jiang

The main result in this paper is the character formula for arbitrary irreducible highest weight modules of W algebras. The key ingredient is the functor provided by quantum Hamiltonian reduction, that constructs the W algebras from affine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Koos de Vos , Peter van Driel

This paper consists of two parts. In the first part, we prove that when $\mathfrak{g}$ is a simple basic Lie superalgebra with a principal odd nilpotent element $f$, the W-algebra $W^k(\mathfrak{g}, F)$ for $F=-\frac{1}{2}[f,f]$ is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Naoki Genra , Arim Song , Uhi Rinn Suh

The Lie superalgebra $W(\infty)$ is defined to be the direct limit of the simple finite-dimensional Cartan type Lie superalgebras $W(n)$ as $n$ goes to infinity, where $W(n)$ denotes the Lie superalgebra of superderivations of the Grassmann…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Lucas Calixto , Crystal Hoyt

This paper is the detailed version of math.QA/0403477 (T. Arakawa, Quantized Reductions and Irreducible Representations of W-Algebras) with extended results; We study the representation theory of the W-algebra $W_k(g)$ associated with a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Tomoyuki Arakawa

We find modular transformations of normalized characters for the following $W$-algebras: (a) $W^{min}_k(\frak{g})$, where $\frak{g}=D_n \, (n \geq 4)$, or $E_6$, $E_7$, $E_8$, and $k$ is a negative integer $\geq -2$, or $\geq…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Victor G. Kac , Minoru Wakimoto

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a simple finite dimensional complex Lie algebra and let $\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}$ be the corresponding affine Lie algebra. Kac and Wakimoto observed that in some cases the coefficients in the character formula for a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Roman Bezrukavnikov , Victor Kac , Vasily Krylov

In the first part of the paper we give the denominator identity for all simple finite-dimensional Lie super algebras $\frak g\/$ with a non-degenerate invariant bilinear form. We give also a character and (super) dimension formulas for all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Victor G. Kac , Minoru Wakimoto

Consider a simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ and $\overline{\mathfrak{g}}% \subset \mathfrak{g}$ a Levi subalgebra. Two irreducible $\overline{% \mathfrak{g}}$-modules yield isomorphic inductions to $\mathfrak{g}$ when their highest weights…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Jérémie Guilhot , Cédric Lecouvey

We generalize the results of [KMST] concerning equivariant quantization by means of Verma modules $M(\lambda)$ for generic weight $\lambda$ to the case of general $\lambda$. We consider the relationship between the Shapovalov form on an…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. Karolinsky , A. Stolin , V. Tarasov

We define Weyl functors, global modules for equivariant map Lie superalgebras $(\g \otimes A)^{\Gamma}$, where $\g$ is basic classical $\mathbb{C}$- Lie superalgebra and $A$ is an associative commutative unital $\mathbb{C}$-algebra. Under…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Lakshmi S K , Saudamini Nayak

Kostant's weight $q$-multiplicity formula is an alternating sum over a finite group known as the Weyl group, whose terms involve the $q$-analog of Kostant's partition function. The $q$-analog of the partition function is a polynomial-valued…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Pamela E. Harris , Peter Hollander , Daniel C. Qin , Maria Rodriguez-Hertz

Let $\mathtt{k}$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Let $\mathfrak{g} $ be a finite dimensional classical simple Lie superalgebra over $\mathtt{k}$ or $\mathfrak{g} l(m,n)$. In the case that $\mathfrak{g} $ is a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Ian M. Musson

With a nilpotent element in a semisimple Lie algebra g one associates a finitely generated associative algebra W called a W-algebra of finite type. This algebra is obtained from the universal enveloping algebra U(g) by a certain Hamiltonian…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-03 Ivan Losev

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a basic Lie superalgebra and $f$ be an odd nilpotent element in an $\mathfrak{osp}(1|2)$ subalgebra of $\mathfrak{g}$. We provide a mathematical proof of the statement that the W-algebra $W^k(\mathfrak{g},F)$ for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Andrew Linshaw , Arim Song , Uhi Rinn Suh