Mathematical physicists have studied degenerations of Lie groups and their representations, which they call contractions. In this paper we study these contractions, and also other families, within the framework of algebraic families of Harish-Chandra modules. We construct a family that incorporates both a real reductive group and its compact form, separate parts of which have been studied individually as contractions. We give a complete classification of generically irreducible families of Harish-Chandra modules in the case of the family associated to SL(2, R).
In this paper, we classify all indecomposable Harish-Chandra modules of the intermediate series over the twisted Heisenberg-Virasoro algebra. Meanwhile, some bosonic modules are also studied.
We consider symmetric pairs of Lie superalgebras which are strongly reductive and of even type, and introduce a graded Harish-Chandra homomorphism. We prove that its image is a certain explicit filtered subalgebra of the Weyl invariants on a Cartan subspace whose associated graded is the image of Chevalley's restriction map on symmetric invariants. This generalises results of Harish-Chandra and V. Kac, M. Gorelik.
For any Lie supergroup whose underlying Lie group is reductive, we prove an extension of the Casselman-Wallach globalisation theorem: There is an equivalence between the category of Harish-Chandra modules and the category of SF-representations (smooth Fréchet representations of moderate growth) whose module of finite vectors is Harish-Chandra. As an application, we extend to Lie supergroups a general general form of the Gel'fand-Kazhdan criterion due to Sun-Zhu.
A notion of generalized highest weight modules over the high rank Virasoro algebras is introduced, and a theorem, which was originally given as a conjecture by Kac over the Virasoro algebra, is generalized. Mainly, we prove that a simple Harish-Chandra module over a high rank Virasoro algebra is either a generalized highest weight module, or a module of the intermediate series.
This expository paper introduces the theory of Harish-Chandra integrals, a family of special functions that express the integral of an exponential function over the adjoint orbits of a compact Lie group. Originally studied in the context of harmonic analysis on Lie algebras, Harish-Chandra integrals now have diverse applications in many areas of mathematics and physics. We review a number of these applications, present several different proofs of Harish-Chandra's celebrated exact formula for the integrals, and give detailed derivations of the specific integral formulae for all compact classica…
We examine from an algebraic point of view some families of unitary group representations that arise in mathematical physics and are associated to contraction families of Lie groups. The contraction families of groups relate different real forms of a reductive group and are continuously parametrized, but the unitary representations are defined over a parameter subspace that includes both discrete and continuous parts. Both finite- and infinite-dimensional representations can occur, even within the same family. We shall study the simplest nontrivial examples, and use the concepts of algebraic f…
Characteristic cycles,leading term cycles,associated varieties and Harish-Chandra cells are computed for the family of highest weight Harish-Chandra modules for Sp(2n, R) having regular integral infinitesimal character.
We study Harish-Chandra representations of Yangian for gl(2). We prove an analogue of Kostant theorem showing that resterited Yangians for gl(2) are free modules over certain maximal commutative subalgebras. We also study the categories of generic Harish-Chandra modules, describe their simple modules and indecomposable modules in tame blocks.
In this paper, it is proved that all irreducible Harish-Chandra modules over the $\Q$ Heisenberg-Virasoro algebra are of intermediate series (all weight spaces are 1-dimensional).
In this paper we continue the study of the category of modular Harish-Chandra bimodules initiated by Bezrukavnikov and Riche and also study the modular version of the BGG category $\mathcal{O}$. We prove a version of the Bezrukavnikov-Mirkovic-Rumynin localization theorem for the Harish-Chandra bimodules and for the category $\mathcal{O}$. We also relate the category of Harish-Chandra bimodules to the affine Hecke category building on the prior work of Bezrukavnikov and Riche.
In this paper, using the theory of $\A$-cover developed in \cite{B1,BF1}, we completely classify all simple Harish-Chandra modules over the high rank $W$-algebra $W(2,2)$. As a byproduct, we obtain the classification of simple Harish-Chandra modules over the classical $W$-algebra $W(2,2)$ studied in \cite{LGZ,CLW,GLZ1}.
Characteristic cycles and leading term cycles of irreducible highest weight Harish-Chandra modules of regular integral infinitesimal character are determined. In the simply laced cases they are irreducible, but in the nonsimply laced cases they are more complicated.
Many examples are given of irreducible Harish-Chandra modules for type C having reducible leading term cycles. Examples are also given of irreducibles in category O having reducible associated varieties in type C.
We show that the coefficients of Kazhdan-Lusztig-Vogan polynomials attached to certain blocks of Harish-Chandra modules satisfy a monotonicity property relative to the closure order on K-orbits in the flag variety.
We show that all the K-finite matrix elements of irreducible Harish-Chandra modules can can be expressed in spherical functions using finite number of operations
We study the effect of the Howe correspondence on Harish-Chandra series for type I dual pairs ($\mathbf{U}_m(\mathbb{F}_q),\mathbf{U}_n(\mathbb{F}_q$)) and ($\mathbf{Sp}_{2m}(\mathbb{F}_q),\mathbf{O}^\pm_{2n}(\mathbb{F}_q)$), where $\mathbb{F}_q$ denotes the finite field with $q$ elements ($q$ odd). We use the Lusztig correspondence to reduce the study of the Howe correspondence between Harish-Chandra series to a correspondence between unipotent Harish-Chandra series. Finally, we provide two applications of these results.
We show how to compute annihilators and associated varieties of simple Harish-Chandra modules for Sp(p,q) with trivial infinitesimal character from a pair of domino tableaux attached to a parameter for such a module.
In this paper, we give a new approach to classify all simple Harish-Chandra modules for the N=1 Ramond algebra based on the so called A-cover theory developed in \cite{BF}
An elementary and self-contained approach to smooth Frechet globalizations of Harish-Chandra modules is presented. We provide applications to the theory of Eisenstein series and Automatic Continuity.
The non-degenerate spherical principal series of quantum Harish-Chandra modules is constructed. These modules appear in the theory of quantum bounded symmertic domains.
We survey some results on tensor products of irreducible Harish-Chandra bimodules. It turns out that such tensor products are semisimple in suitable Serre quotient categories. We explain how to identify the resulting semisimple tensor categories and describe some applications to representation theory.
The distribution of the unipotent modules (in non-defining prime characteristic) of the finite unitary groups into Harish-Chandra series is investigated. We formulate a series of conjectures relating this distribution with the crystal graph of an integrable module for a certain quantum group. Evidence for our conjectures is presented, as well as proofs for some of their consequences for the crystal graphs involved. In the course of our work we also generalize Harish-Chandra theory for some of the finite classical groups, and we introduce their Harish-Chandra branching graphs.
In this paper, we provide a uniform method to thoroughly classify all Harish-Chandra modules over some Lie algebras related to the Virasoro algebras. We first classify such modules over the Lie algebra $W(\varrho)[s]$ for $s=0,\frac12$. With this result and method, we can also do such works for some Lie algebras and superconformal algebras related to the Virasoro algebra, including the several kinds of Schrödinger-Virasoro Lie algebras, which are open up to now.
In this paper we study the category of Harish-Chandra bimodules $HC_{χ,ψ}$ in the Deligne category $\text{Rep}(GL_t)$. In particular, we answer Question 3.25 posed in Pavel Etingof's paper arXiv:1407.0373 and determine for which central characters $χ$ and $ψ$ this category is not zero.
We formulate and prove a Paley-Wiener theorem for Harish-Chandra modules for a real reductive group. As a corollary we obtain a new and elementary proof of the Helgason conjecture.
We construct categories of Harish-Chandra bimodules for affine Lie algebras analogous to Harish-Chandra bimodules with infinitesimal characters for simple Lie algebras, addressing an old problem raised by I. Frenkel and Malikov. Under an integrality hypothesis, we establish monoidal equivalences between blocks of our affine Harish-Chandra bimodules and versions of the affine Hecke category. To do so, we introduce a new singular localization onto Whittaker flag manifolds. The argument for the latter specializes to a somewhat alternative treatment of regular localization, and identifies the cate…
We consider the category of Harish-Chandra modules for ${\rm SL}_2(\mathbb R)$ as a module over the category of finite-dimensional representations of ${\rm SL}(2)$ with respect to the tensor product. In this note we use classical results about principal series to obtain a classification of $\otimes$-submodules of the category of Harish-Chandra modules of ${\rm SL}_2(\mathbb R)$. The resulting classification recovers the classical classification of irreducible Harish-Chandra modules. Our methods are expected to generalize to arbitrary reductive pairs and more general base fields.
We prove a general existence result for infinite-dimensional admissible (g;k)-modules, where g is a reductive finite-dimensional complex Lie algebra and k is a reductive in g algebraic subalgebra.
We present a new proof of Harish-Chandra's formula $$Π(h_1) Π(h_2) \int_G e^{\langle \mathrm{Ad}_g h_1, h_2 \rangle} dg = \frac{ [ \! [ Π, Π] \!] }{|W|} \sum_{w \in W} ε(w) e^{\langle w(h_1),h_2 \rangle},$$ where $G$ is a compact, connected, semisimple Lie group, $dg$ is normalized Haar measure, $h_1$ and $h_2$ lie in a Cartan subalgebra of the complexified Lie algebra, $Π$ is the discriminant, $\langle \cdot, \cdot \rangle$ is the Killing form, $[ \! [ \cdot, \cdot ] \!]$ is an inner product that extends the Killing form to polynomials, $W$ is a Weyl group, and $ε(w)$ is the sign of $w \in W$…
For any complex reductive Lie algebra g and any locally finite g-module V, we extend to the tensor product of U(g) with V the Harish-Chandra description of g-invariants in the universal enveloping algebra U(g).
In the case of cyclic quiver we prove that the deformed Harish-Chandra map whose existence was conjectured by Etingof and Ginzburg is well defined. As an application we prove Kirillov-type formula for the cyclotomic Bessel function.
We make a first step towards a classification of simple generalized Harish-Chandra modules which are not Harish-Chandra modules or weight modules of finite type. For an arbitrary algebraic reductive pair of complex Lie algebras $(\g,\k)$, we construct, via cohomological induction, the fundamental series $F^\cdot (\p,E)$ of generalized Harish-Chandra modules. We then use $F^\cdot (\p,E)$ to characterize any simple generalized Harish-Chandra module with generic minimal $\k$-type. More precisely, we prove that any such simple $(\g,\k)$-module of finite type arises as the unique simple submodule o…
We give a cohomological treatment of a character theory for (g,K)-modules. This leads to a nice formalism extending to large categories of not necessarily admissible (g,K)-modules. Due to results of Hecht, Schmid and Vogan the classical results of Harish-Chandra's global character theory extend to this general setting. As an application we consider a general setup, for which we show that algebraic characters answer discretely decomposable branching problems.
The Slodowy slice is an especially nice slice to a given nilpotent conjugacy class in a semisimple Lie algebra. Premet introduced noncommutative quantizaions of the Poisson algebra of polynomial functions on the Slodowy slice. In this paper, we define and study Harish-Chandra bimodules over Premet's algebras. We apply the technique of Harish-Chandra bimodules to prove a conjecture of Premet concerning primitive ideals, and to construct `noncommutative resolutions' of Slodowy slices via translation functors.
Given a simple Harish-Chandra module for this group of trivial infinitesimal character, parametrized by a signed involution, we produce combinatorial recipes for attaching to it a pair of tableaux from which its annihilator and associated variety can be read off.
We prove a category equivalence between algebraic supergroups and Harish-Chandra pairs over a commutative ring which is $2$-torsion free. The result is applied to re-construct the Chevalley $\mathbb{Z}$-supergroups constructed by Fioresi and Gavarini [8] and by Gavarini [9, 10]. For a wide class of algebraic supergroups we describe their representations by using their super-hyperalgebras.
In the modular representation theory of finite unitary groups when the characteristic $\ell$ of the ground field is a unitary prime, the $\hat{\mathfrak{sl}}_e$-crystal on level $2$ Fock spaces graphically describes the Harish-Chandra branching of unipotent representations restricted to the tower of unitary groups. However, how to determine the cuspidal support of an arbitrary unipotent representation has remained an open question. We show that for $\ell$ sufficiently large, the $\mathfrak{sl}_\infty$-crystal on the same level $2$ Fock spaces provides the remaining piece of the puzzle for the …
This paper is devoted to the Harish-Chandra-type decomposition of the global nonsymmetric spherical functions in terms of their asymptotic expansions and the q,t-generalization of the celebrated c-function. This is for any reduced root systems in the q,t-setting; we pay special attention to the case of A1, where this decomposition is very explicit.
Over an arbitrary field of characteristic $\ne 2$, we define the notion of Harish-Chandra pairs, and prove that the category of those pairs is anti-equivalent to the category of algebraic affine supergroup schemes. The result is applied to characterize some classes of affine supergroup schemes such as those which are (a) simply connected, (b) unipotent or (c) linearly reductive in positive characteristic.
We prove that the Harish-Chandra--Schwartz space associated with a discrete subgroup of a semisimple Lie group is a dense subalgebra of the reduced $C^*$-algebra of the discrete subgroup. Then, we prove that for the reduced $C^*$-norm is controlled by the norm of the Harish-Chandra--Schwartz space. This inequality is weaker than property RD and holds for any discrete group acting isometrically, properly on a Riemannian symmetric space.
Harish-Chandra's volume formula shows that the volume of a flag manifold $G/T$, where the measure is induced by an invariant inner product on the Lie algebra of $G$, is determined up to a scalar by the algebraic properties of $G$. This article explains how to deduce Harish-Chandra's formula from Weyl's law by utilizing the Euler-Maclaurin formula. This approach leads to a mystery that lies under the Atiyah-Singer index theorem.
In this paper, we classify all simple jet modules for the Neveu-Schwarz algebra $\widehat{\mathfrak{k}}$ and its contact subalgebra $\mathfrak{k}^+$. Based on these results, we give a classification of simple Harish-Chandra modules for $\widehat{\mathfrak{k}}$ and $\mathfrak{k}^+$.
We continue the study of Harish-Chandra bimodules in the setting of the Deligne categories $\mathrm{Rep}(G_t)$, that was started in the previous work of the first author (arXiv:2002.01555). In this work we construct a family of Harish-Chandra bimodules that generalize simple finite dimensional bimodules in the classical case. It turns out that they have finite $K$-type, which is a non-vacuous condition for the Harish-Chandra bimodules in $\mathrm{Rep}(G_t)$. The full classification of (simple) finite $K$-type bimodules is yet unknown. This construction also yields some examples of central char…
We use the progenerator constructed in our previous paper to give a necessary condition for a simple module of a finite reductive group to be cuspidal, or more generally to obtain information on which Harish-Chandra series it can lie in. As a first application we show the irreducibility of the smallest unipotent character in any Harish-Chandra series. Secondly, we determine a unitriangular approximation to part of the unipotent decomposition matrix of finite orthogonal groups and prove a gap result on certain Brauer character degrees.
The irreducible characters of a finite reductive group are partitioned into Harish-Chandra series that are labelled by cuspidal pairs. In this note, we describe how one can algorithmically calculate those cuspidal pairs using results of Lusztig.
A basic exact sequence by Harish-Chandra related to the invariant differential operators on a Riemannian symmetric space G/K is generalized for each K-type in a certain class which we call `single-petaled'. The argument also includes a further generalization of Broer's generalization of the Chevalley restriction theorem.
In this paper, we introduce the Harish-Chandra homomorphism for the quantum superalgebra $\mathrm{U}_q(\mathfrak{g})$ associated with a simple basic Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{g}$ and give an explicit description of its image. We use it to prove that the center of $\mathrm{U}_q(\mathfrak{g})$ is isomorphic to a subring of the ring $J(\mathfrak{g})$ of exponential super-invariants in the sense of Sergeev and Veselov, establishing a Harish-Chandra type theorem for $\mathrm{U}_q(\mathfrak{g})$. As a byproduct, we obtain a basis of the center of $\mathrm{U}_q(\mathfrak{g})$ with the aid of quasi-…
