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Nonintegral sl2 central characters split into two simple blocks
Example
Assume the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice).
Fix a finite-dimensional complex semisimple Lie algebra , a Cartan subalgebra , and a positive Borel . Write , when , and .
For and , has exactly two distinct singleton linkage blocks, with labels and . Each block is equivalent to finite-dimensional complex vector spaces. In particular the central-character summand is semisimple but is not one indecomposable block.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Axiom of Choice, the setting above, and the hypotheses in the example.
Every object of is a direct sum of weight spaces, is finitely generated, and is stable under root operators, which shift weights by elements of the root lattice (The classical BGG category O).
Fix a finite-dimensional complex semisimple Lie algebra , a Cartan subalgebra , and a positive Borel . Write , when , and . Every short exact sequence in splits. (Verma self-extensions in O split)
Fix a finite-dimensional complex semisimple Lie algebra , a Cartan subalgebra , and a positive Borel . Write , when , and . For , is finite dimensional. For every weight , . (Finite-dimensional Hom spaces in O)
The Verma PBW model gives the basis () of (The PBW model of a Verma module).
Let , let be a unital complex-algebra character, and put . For , the generalized central-character submodule is , and consists of the objects with . (Generalized central-character subcategories)
The simple objects of are exactly the modules , , and if and only if . (The simple objects of O)
If a cyclic highest-weight module has highest weight , then every acts on it by the scalar . (The Harish-Chandra projection computes the highest-weight scalar)
Under the given Choice premise, the highest-weight central characters satisfy if and only if . (Central characters are dot-Weyl orbits)
Under the given Choice premise, every object of has a finite composition series and is both Noetherian and Artinian. The length of zero is zero. (Every object of O has finite length)
The central-character subcategories are categorical direct summands of , with exact projections (Generalized central-character decomposition of O).
Verification
For , the dot orbit of is exactly . Its two labels are nonintegral and distinct: equality would imply . By F8 they have the same central character. Conversely, if a simple object belongs to , F6 writes it as . Its highest vector is killed by a power of every by F5, while F7 says that acts on it as . Hence , and F8 forces . To see that both Vermas are simple, fix either nonintegral label . The relations and give and, by induction using , the coefficient formula for . Every nonzero submodule of contains a nonzero weight vector: project a finite sum of distinct weight components using a polynomial in . Choose its least occurring PBW index . If , the derived formula makes , contradicting minimality; hence and the submodule contains , so it equals . The shifted simple-root pairings of the two labels are and , both nonintegral. Hence their integral-reflection linkage classes are singletons by The integral Weyl group of a weight.
The two labels lie in distinct root-lattice cosets: their difference is in -weight coordinates, whereas the root lattice has even integral coordinates; . For each , group its weight spaces by every coset of . Root operators preserve each group, so F1 makes these groups submodules whose direct sum is . Any nonzero group has a simple composition factor by F9. Step 1.1 allows only the two labels, whose simple modules have weights in their respective cosets, so all other groups vanish. Hence functorially, and every nonzero summand has factors only of its corresponding label. Both summands are nonzero because they contain their simple Verma modules.
Fix one label and put . Every object in its coset summand has a finite composition series by F9, and all its factors are by step 2.1. Every extension of by itself splits by F2. More generally an extension splits: push out along each coordinate projection , obtaining . Each has a retraction to its kernel . Composing these retractions with and collecting coordinates gives a retraction , hence a splitting. The case is immediate.
Induction on a composition series now expresses every object in either coset summand as a finite direct sum of its sole simple . Since , maps between and are exactly complex matrices. Thus (with trivial action on the finite-dimensional multiplicity space) and are inverse equivalences for each summand. Zero corresponds to the zero-dimensional vector space. Each summand is indecomposable as a category because every nonzero object contains its sole simple and all objects are sums of . By F10, itself is a direct summand of , so these are precisely its two blocks in .
Depends on
- The Axiom of Choice
- The classical BGG category O
- The integral Weyl group of a weight
- Verma self-extensions in O split
- Finite-dimensional Hom spaces in O
- The PBW model of a Verma module
- Generalized central-character subcategories
- The simple objects of O
- The Harish-Chandra projection computes the highest-weight scalar
- Central characters are dot-Weyl orbits
- Every object of O has finite length
- Generalized central-character decomposition of O
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Sources
- §15.1 Example 15.8, p.81 (standard reference, not scraped)