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Finite weight spaces alone do not give category O
Statement refuted
Fix a finite-dimensional complex semisimple Lie algebra , a Cartan subalgebra , and a positive Borel . Write , when , and .
False claim: a finitely generated weight module with finite-dimensional weight spaces must belong to .
For , induce the weight-zero one-dimensional module from the negative Borel . The resulting lowest-weight Verma module is cyclic, has one-dimensional weight spaces at for , and is not in .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The setting above and the hypotheses in the statement refuted.
Fix a finite-dimensional complex semisimple Lie algebra , a Cartan subalgebra , and a positive Borel . Write , when , and . The BGG category is the full subcategory of left -modules satisfying all three conditions: is finitely generated; where ; and is finite dimensional for each . Its morphisms are all -linear maps. The zero module is included, generated by the empty set. The enveloping and triangular conventions are those of thm-pbw-ordered-monomial-basis-for-the-enveloping-algebra and thm-triangular-decomposition-from-a-chosen-positive-root-system. (The classical BGG category O)
Fix a finite-dimensional complex semisimple Lie algebra , a Cartan subalgebra , and a positive Borel . Write , when , and . Let be a finitely generated -semisimple -module. Then if and only if for some finite list of weights. In either case every is finite dimensional. The list may be empty for ; finite generation is an independent hypothesis. (The support description of category O with finite generation)
Let be an ordered basis of a finite-dimensional complex Lie algebra . Then the monomials form a basis of . In particular, multiplication identifies with the symmetric algebra on the symbols of the . (PBW gives an ordered monomial basis for the enveloping algebra)
Counterexample
Let in , where and kill . Ordering before the negative Borel in PBW gives the basis , . The relation gives . This proves cyclicity and the one-dimensional weight-space assertion.
The vectors are linearly independent, so is infinite dimensional and violates the local-finiteness axiom. Moreover no finite union of sets can contain all : any cone meeting this real arithmetic progression has a fixed finite upper bound there, and finitely many bounds cannot contain its unbounded sequence. Thus the support criterion fails as well.
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Sources
- Lecture 8 §3 paragraph after Corollary 3.3, p.4 (standard reference, not scraped)