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In this short note we announce three formulas for the set of weights of various classes of highest weight modules $\V$ with highest weight \lambda, over a complex semisimple Lie algebra $\lie{g}$ with Cartan subalgebra $\lie{h}$. These…

Let $V$ be a highest weight module over a Kac-Moody algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, and let conv $V$ denote the convex hull of its weights. We determine the combinatorial isomorphism type of conv $V$, i.e. we completely classify the faces and their…

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a complex Kac-Moody algebra, with Cartan subalgebra $\mathfrak{h}$. Also fix a weight $\lambda\in\mathfrak{h}^*$. For $M(\lambda)\twoheadrightarrow V$ an arbitrary highest weight $\mathfrak{g}$-module, we provide a…

In this paper we study certain fundamental and distinguished subsets of weights of an arbitrary highest weight module over a complex semisimple Lie algebra. These sets ${\rm wt}_J \mathbb{V}^\lambda$ are defined for each highest weight…

Chari and Greenstein [Adv. Math. 2009] introduced combinatorial subsets of the roots of a finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ which were important in studying Kirillov-Reshetikhin modules over $U_q(\widehat{\mathfrak{g}})$…

The paper is motivated by the study of graded representations of Takiff algebras, cominuscule parabolics, and their generalizations. We study certain special subsets of the set of weights (and of their convex hull) of the generalized Verma…

Fix any Borcherds-Kac-Moody $\mathbb{C}$-Lie algebra (BKM LA) $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{g}(A)$ of BKM-Cartan matrix $A$, and Cartan subalgebra $\mathfrak{h}\subset \mathfrak{g}$. In this paper, we obtain explicit weight formulas of any…

We give the first positive formulas for the weights of every simple highest weight module $L(\lambda)$ over an arbitrary Kac-Moody algebra. Under a mild condition on the highest weight, we also express the weights of $L(\lambda)$ as an…

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a finite or an affine type Lie algebra over $\mathbb{C}$ with root system $\Delta$. We show a parabolic generalization of the partial sum property for $\Delta$, which we term the parabolic partial sum property. It…

Let $\lambda$ be a dominant weight of a finite dimensional simple Lie algebra and $W$ the Weyl group. The convex hull of $W\lambda$ is defined as the weight polytope of $\lambda$. We provide a new proof that there is a natural bijection…

Consider the affine Lie algebra $\hat{s\ell}(n)$ with null root $\delta$, weight lattice $P$ and set of dominant weights $P^+$. Let $V(k\Lambda_0), \, k \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 1}$ denote the integrable highest weight $\hat{s\ell}(n)$-module…

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a semisimple Lie algebra over $\mathbb{C}$ having rank $l$ and let $V=L(\lambda)$ be an irreducible finite-dimensional $\mathfrak{g}$-module having highest weight $\lambda.$ Computations of weight multiplicities in…

Fix any complex Kac-Moody Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, and Cartan subalgebra $\mathfrak{h}\subset \mathfrak{g}$. We study arbitrary highest weight $\mathfrak{g}$-modules $V$ (with any highest weight $\lambda\in \mathfrak{h}^*$, and let…

Let $\Lambda$ be a dominant integral weight of level $k$ for the affine Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$ and let $\alpha$ be a non-negative integral combination of simple roots. We address the question of whether the weight $\eta=\Lambda-\alpha$…

For $n \geq 2$ consider the affine Lie algebra $\widehat{s\ell}(n)$ with simple roots $\{\alpha_i \mid 0 \leq i \leq n-1\}$. Let $V(k\Lambda_0), \, k \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 1}$ denote the integrable highest weight $\widehat{s\ell}(n)$-module…

Let $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{g}_{\bar0}+\mathfrak{g}_{\bar1}$ be a basic classical Lie superalgebra over $\mathbb{C}$, and $e=e_{\theta}\in\mathfrak{g}_{\bar0}$ with $-\theta$ being a minimal root of $\mathfrak{g}$. Set $U(\mathfrak{g},e)$…

Let $\g$ be a reductive Lie algebra and $V$ a $\g$-semisimple module. In this article, we study the category $\G$ of graded finite-dimensional representations of $\g \ltimes V$. We produce a large class of truncated subcategories, which are…

We define analogues of Verma modules for finite W-algebras. By the usual ideas of highest weight theory, this is a first step towards the classification of finite dimensional irreducible modules. Motivated by known results in type A, we…

In this paper, we generalize a result by Berman and Billig on weight modules over Lie algebras with polynomial multiplication. More precisely, we show that a highest weight module with an exp-polynomial ``highest weight'' has finite…

If $\mathfrak{g}$ is a contragredient Lie superalgebra and $\gamma$ is a root of $\mathfrak{g},$ we prove the existence and uniqueness of \v{S}apovalov elements for $\gamma$ and give upper bounds on the degrees of their coefficients. Then…