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Whittaker modules for classical Lie superalgebras

Representation Theory 2021-08-18 v2

Abstract

We classify simple Whittaker modules for classical Lie superalgebras in terms of their parabolic decompositions. We establish a type of Mili\v{c}i\'c-Soergel equivalence of a category of Whittaker modules and a category of Harish-Chandra bimodules. For classical Lie superalgebras of type I, we reduce the problem of composition factors of standard Whittaker modules to that of Verma modules in their BGG categories O\mathcal O. As a consequence, the composition series of standard Whittaker modules over the general linear Lie superalgebras gl(mn)\mathfrak{gl}(m|n) and the ortho-symplectic Lie superalgebras osp(22n)\mathfrak{osp}(2|2n) can be computed via the Kazhdan-Lusztig combinatorics.

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@article{arxiv.2101.08107,
  title  = {Whittaker modules for classical Lie superalgebras},
  author = {Chih-Whi Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.08107},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

29 pages, version 2, minor revision. Comments welcome

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