Contracting modules and standard monomial theory for symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras
Contracting modules and standard monomial theory for symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras
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可对称 Kac-Moody 代数的收缩模和标准单项式理论
DOI:
10.1090/s0894-0347-98-00268-9
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发表时间:
1998
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3.9
通讯作者:
P. Littelmann
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作者:
P. Littelmann
Let G be a reductive algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field k. We fix a Borel subgroup B, and for a dominant weight λ let Lλ be the associated line bundle on the generalized flag variety G/B. In a series of articles, Lakshmibai, Musili and Seshadri initiated a program to construct a basis for the space H0(G/B,Lλ) with some particularly nice geometric properties. The purpose of the program is to extend the Hodge-Young standard monomial theory for the group SL(n) to the case of any semisimple algebraic group and, more generally, to Kac-Moody algebras. We refer to [3], [7], [10], [14] for a survey of the subject and applications. We provide a new approach which completes the program and which avoids the case by case considerations of the earlier articles. In fact, the method works for all symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras. The most important tools we need in our approach are the combinatorial language of the path model of a representation [11], [12], and quantum groups at a root of unity. Let Uv(g) be the quantum group associated to G at an `-th root of unity v. We use the quantum Frobenius map [15] to “contract” certain Uv(g)-modules so that they become G-modules. The corresponding map between the dual spaces can be seen as a kind of splitting of the power map H(G/B,Lλ) → H(G/B,L`λ), s 7→ s. For simplicity let us assume we are in the simply laced case. Let Vλ be the Weyl module of G of highest weight λ, and let Mλ be the corresponding Weyl module of Uv(g). There is a canonical way to attach a tensor product bπ := bν1 ⊗ . . .⊗ bν` of extremal weight vectors bνj ∈ M∗ λ to each L-S path π of shape λ [11] for an appropriate ` (recall that an L-S path can be characterized by a collection of extremal weights and rational numbers). To construct a basis of H0(G/B,Lλ) = V ∗ λ , we use the contraction map to embed Vλ into (Mλ) ⊗`. Denote by pπ the image of bπ in V ∗ λ under the dual map (M ∗ λ) ⊗` → V ∗ λ . We show that the vectors pπ, π an L-S path of shape λ, form a basis of V ∗ λ . Further, the `-th power pπ ∈ H0(G/B,L`λ) is a product of extremal weight vectors pν1 · · · pν` , pνi ∈ H0(G/B,Lλ), plus a linear combination of elements which are “bigger” in some partial order. The basis given by the pπ is compatible with the restriction map H0(G/B,Lλ) → H0(X,Lλ) to a Schubert variety X , and it has the “standard monomial property”.