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A fixed singular Verma chain with globally generated final bundle
Statement
Assume the complex flag-variety setup, including the Axiom of Choice, of Flag-variety twisted differential operators and their modules. Let be antidominant, put and assume is a simple system for the full zero-root subsystem . Choose a reduced expression for the longest element of . Set , , and using the exact twisted associated-bundle functor in Exact twisted associated bundles and simple-parabolic descent. The rational -action has highest-vector weight . Then there are embeddings For each , a coherent module over satisfies Furthermore is generated as a -module by finitely many global sections: for a finite-dimensional rational irreducible -module of highest weight there is a surjection with horizontal constant -factor. The sequence of roots depends only on the chosen reduced expression in , not on any later module to which the chain is applied. When is empty, and the same assertions hold with .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Complex antidominant , the full zero-subsystem condition, the chosen reduced expression, and the objects defined in the statement.
Finite Weyl groups have closed-chamber stabilizers generated by the perpendicular roots; reduced expressions have positive prefix roots and longest elements reverse all positive roots (Finite Weyl closed chambers and stabilizers, Finite Weyl positive roots and simple reflections, Finite Weyl strong exchange and deletion).
Complex antidominance implies for every (Complex-weight separation of Harish-Chandra characters).
exists as a rational -module by The Borel-Weil theorem; its weights are -invariant, lie below , and every extremal weight has multiplicity one (Extremal Weyl-orbit weights). The Borel–Weil convention there uses the line with character ; its section module has highest weight .
PBW gives exact induction from and identifies Verma modules with negative-root monomials. The central character of is , and two such shifted characters coincide exactly on a Weyl orbit (Verma modules, PBW gives an ordered monomial basis for the enveloping algebra, Harish-Chandra isomorphism for the center).
The exact associated-bundle functor, its PBW identification, the finite- tensor identity with horizontal constant factor, and its partial-parabolic descent are proved in Exact twisted associated bundles and simple-parabolic descent.
Positive root subgroups, their product factorization, and the minimal-parabolic root subgroup are those of Borel, opposite unipotent groups and root coordinates and Minimal parabolic from one negative simple root. Finite-dimensional modules of highest weight integrate to their polynomial representations (Finite-dimensional representations of sl_2).
The enveloping algebra has primitive coproduct and antipode , with both antipode convolution identities proved on all words (Hopf-algebra structure on U(g)).
Proof
Write in the real root space. Choose a real number outside the following finite exceptional set: for each root, exclude a value making unless both pairings already vanish; for each Weyl element, exclude a value making unless and . Each nonidentical linear equation excludes at most one value. Then the real vector has stabilizer , and its perpendicular roots are exactly . The real closed-chamber stabilizer theorem [F1] therefore identifies with the group generated by these root reflections. The assumed simple system gives . Reduced-word positivity in [F1] gives : the inverse prefix sends to a positive root. For completeness, permutes the positive roots other than , so and . Each positive coroot is a nonzero nonnegative integral sum of simple coroots (apply the positive-root statement to the dual root system), giving the asserted positive integral pairing. The final pairs strictly negatively with every positive coroot of .
Choose root generators with . In its highest vector has -weight , because and . The identity for a highest vector of weight , proved by commuting past the factors, shows that is killed by . Every other simple positive generator commutes with and kills . Thus this is a highest vector of weight , defining . On the negative-root PBW model it is multiplication on the right by . The associated graded is multiplication by a nonzero monomial in the polynomial algebra , hence injective; taking the highest nonzero degree proves injectivity of the original map. Twisting the rational highest weight adds , so the same map is -equivariant. This gives the fixed chain.
In the highest-weight module of [F3] put This is a -submodule: raising a weight outside the downset of cannot enter that downset, since subtracting a positive root from an element of stays incompatible with the assumed outside condition in the reverse direction. More explicitly, if for , then , a contradiction. All weights of satisfy . Its one-dimensional extremal weight line is a -submodule because raising it leaves this downset.
Put , and . Let be the sum of negative root spaces other than . It is a Lie subalgebra stable under the -Levi. Ordering its basis before in PBW gives Indeed has exactly the basis with final exponent at least . The last factor is the -dimensional simple -module. Positive root spaces other than kill this factor: commute them past powers of ; all resulting roots stay positive and different from , or vanish. Therefore this basis identifies with the parabolic induction from that finite-dimensional -module. In particular and are locally nilpotent on : the adjoint -action on each finite PBW degree of is locally finite, and its tensor with the last factor is a sum of finite-dimensional modules.
Suppose a weight of has . By [F4] and the -invariance of the sign change, , where the last equality uses . Choose with . Then since is a weight of and lies below by [F3]. By [F2] the difference is zero, so and . Thus . For a strictly antidominant weight in this subsystem, for every : telescope a reduced word, whose simple-root pairings with are negative and whose prefix roots are positive by [F1]. Consequently , whereas by step 2.2. The pointed root cone forces . Thus all other weights of have central characters different from the distinguished one. This is separation for arbitrary complex antidominant , using no real-chamber restriction.
Remove the integral character from the rational -action on . Its infinitesimal action becomes , and all torus weights are integral, beginning with . This action extends to a rational -action. Explicitly keep the torus weight action and the existing positive root groups, and define the additional negative root group by . This exponential is a finite sum on each vector by step 3.1. On finite PBW-degree subspaces, the Levi relations hold by [F6]; the torus action agrees because its -weight is that of , as . The other torus characters are integral and hence rational. The non-Levi positive nilradical acts locally nilpotently and its conjugation relations with the Levi follow by exponentiating the Lie brackets; the finite Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff sums agree with its root-group factorization [F6]. These actions are locally finite: commuting a positive non-Levi root generator through a PBW word never increases its degree, and the Levi preserves that degree. Each bounded-degree tensor the last finite factor is finite-dimensional and stable under . Hence all the displayed matrix coefficients are regular and glue to the rational parabolic action. Covariance with follows on the root generators by the same bracket/exponential calculation. This is a twisted -module of twist .
Induce from . By exactness of induction, its distinguished weight line induces the submodule . The quotient has a finite Verma filtration with one factor for each other weight, counted with multiplicity: order the finitely many weight spaces from higher to lower and refine within each torus weight space; the positive nilradical raises weights and the torus acts diagonally. Choose a central element whose value on the distinguished character differs from its values on all the other characters. Such exists: each forbidden equality is a proper linear hyperplane in the center, and a finite union of proper linear subspaces cannot cover a complex vector space (restrict to the finite span of elements individually separating the finitely many pairs). Let with repetition along the quotient filtration. The product annihilates that quotient, because each factor kills its corresponding successive Verma factor; all factors commute. On it is the nonzero scalar . Therefore maps the induced module onto and is the identity on , giving a projection. It intertwines the rational twisted -action because is invariant under the adjoint action of connected . This is an actual module projection; no -linearity is asserted for central operators on arbitrary differential modules.
Apply [F5] to the exact chain in step 2.1. The PBW identity gives . Descent of step 4.1 gives , with . These modules are coherent: is locally a rank-one free differential module, and the PBW filtered-noetherian argument makes its differential submodules and quotients coherent. Locally the quotient has the form ; finite differential generators on the two affine fiber charts involve finitely many coefficients in . Their base-differential span must be , since vertical differentiation creates no new coefficients. The partial TDO is locally noetherian by the same PBW argument, so is coherent.
Composing induction of with the projection of step 4.2 gives a surjection of twisted modules Here the tensor identity is the map , with inverse obtained by inserting the antipode in the second enveloping factor. The coproduct and antipode from [F7] check on generators that both maps respect the relations, are mutual inverses, and commute with the twisted rational -actions. Apply the exact functor [F5]. Its PBW and tensor identities give with differential action only on . The sections for a finite basis of are global differential generators. This proves finite global generation and completes all chain assertions, including the empty-word case. Choice enters through the inherited highest-weight and Weyl suppliers and the permitted bases.
Depends on
- The Axiom of Choice
- Flag-variety twisted differential operators and their modules
- Verma modules
- Finite Weyl closed chambers and stabilizers
- Finite Weyl positive roots and simple reflections
- Finite Weyl strong exchange and deletion
- Complex-weight separation of Harish-Chandra characters
- Exact twisted associated bundles and simple-parabolic descent
- Borel, opposite unipotent groups and root coordinates
- Minimal parabolic from one negative simple root
- Extremal Weyl-orbit weights
- The Borel-Weil theorem
- Finite-dimensional representations of sl_2
- Harish-Chandra isomorphism for the center
- PBW gives an ordered monomial basis for the enveloping algebra
- Hopf-algebra structure on U(g)
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Sources
- Masaki Kashiwara, Representation theory and D-modules on flag varieties, Astérisque 173–174 (1989) (standard reference, not scraped)