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Extremal Weyl-orbit weights
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let be a finite-dimensional complex semisimple Lie algebra with Cartan subalgebra and a fixed positive system with Weyl group and fundamental chamber (Open and closed Weyl chambers, Simple transitivity on Weyl chambers), let be dominant integral, and let be the finite-dimensional irreducible module of highest weight . Then for every the weight occurs in with multiplicity one, and is extremal in the chamber , in the following sense: every weight of satisfies in the root order, equivalently is a nonnegative integral combination of the positive roots of the positive system defined by the chamber .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Axiom of Choice, such , a fixed positive system with Weyl group and fundamental chamber , a dominant integral , and the module .
The Axiom of Choice is assumed; it enters through the root-space theory used by the cited suppliers (The Axiom of Choice).
is a finite-dimensional irreducible highest weight module of highest weight ; its -weight space is one-dimensional and every weight of satisfies , that is, is a nonnegative integral combination of the simple roots (Highest-weight classification, The highest-weight space is one-dimensional, Highest weight modules lie below the top weight, Root order on weights).
Weight multiplicities of are invariant under : for all and all , so the weight set is -invariant (Simple reflections preserve weight multiplicities).
The chambers of are the connected components of the complement of the root hyperplanes; the fundamental chamber is , the Weyl group permutes the chambers, and acts simply transitively on them; the set of positive roots attached to is , and the associated positive cone is (Open and closed Weyl chambers, Simple transitivity on Weyl chambers, Simple roots form a signed integral basis, Weyl group).
Proof
Fix ; since is a weight of by [L1] and the weight set is -invariant by [L2], the functional is a weight of , and its multiplicity satisfies by [L2] and [L1].
Let be a weight of ; then is a weight by [L2], so by [L1], that is, .
Applying the linear map to the relation of step 1.2 gives , which is exactly the statement that is a nonnegative integral combination of the roots in the positive system attached to the chamber by [L3]; hence is extremal in that chamber.
Steps 1.1 and 2.1 prove the multiplicity-one and extremality assertions for every .
Depends on
- Highest-weight classification
- The highest-weight space is one-dimensional
- Highest weight modules lie below the top weight
- Simple reflections preserve weight multiplicities
- Open and closed Weyl chambers
- Simple transitivity on Weyl chambers
- Weyl group
- Root order on weights
- Simple roots form a signed integral basis
- Weight and weight space
- The Axiom of Choice
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Sources
- Anthony W. Knapp, Lie Groups Beyond an Introduction, 2nd ed. (standard reference, not scraped)
- Alexander Kirillov Jr., An Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras (standard reference, not scraped)