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Vust's graded double centralizer for the type-A nilpotent centralizer
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let be a finite-dimensional complex vector space, let be nilpotent with largest Jordan string length , let , and put . Let act on by the individual operators (in the -th tensor factor) and the place permutations, and let be the algebra map induced by the diagonal action of and the map encoding the right action. Then for every nilpotent Jordan type and every . If has at least Jordan strings of the maximum length , then is injective. For the identities are scalar identities and injectivity is automatic.
The full converse uses the proved normality and covariant-extension suppliers of this page; it is not a stable-only claim and it does not assume the double commutant identity.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC; a nilpotent with largest Jordan length , the algebra acting on by individual -operators and places, and .
is the full associative centralizer algebra, with multiplication given by composition. For a Jordan-string decomposition , with acting as , its block is , of dimension : a homomorphism is determined by the image of , which must be killed by . Thus all off-diagonal string-homomorphism blocks, including those between unequal lengths, are retained. The algebra need not be semisimple: for a single string of length it is , with nonzero radical . The invertible elements act diagonally on by (Nilpotent endomorphisms and their nilpotency index, Every finite-dimensional nilpotent endomorphism has a basis of Jordan strings, Classical complex matrix Lie algebras).
Tensor matrix units identify with . Extending a basis of in each factor shows that commuting with every individual is exactly membership in . The place-fixed tensors are spanned by symmetrized pure tensors. For , the identity follows by expansion: any term missing a label cancels in the subset sum, and surviving terms use each label once. Thus is spanned by . For both spaces are .
Normality and covariants: the orbit closure of is normal with , and every -fixed endomorphism of is the value at of a -equivariant polynomial map with scalar invariant coefficients (Type-A nilpotent orbit closures are normal via chain varieties, Nilpotent-orbit tensor covariants extend and polarize).
The Hecke operators of Arakawa-Suzuki Casimir operators on tensor functors satisfy the relations of , and acts as the place permutation (The Casimir and place-permutation operators satisfy the degenerate affine Hecke relations).
Proof
Given: The algebra , the truncated algebra , and the maps of the Statement.
The first centralizer. An operator commutes with the action of if and only if it commutes with the individual -operators and with the place permutations: the first condition says by [F2], and then the second says , which is spanned by the elements , . The image of under the diagonal representation is contained in : the diagonal action of commutes with the individual 's and with places. Conversely, for the element equals the product of its individual-position operators; For the commuting individual operators , put and . Formal differentiation and the geometric series for each factor give , so and . Each belongs to the enveloping image because is an associative algebra; here is the matrix power, regarded as an element of the Lie algebra . The recurrence therefore puts in that image. Hence and .
The second centralizer. An operator commutes with the diagonal -action if and only if it is -fixed, as follows. If is -fixed, commuting with for all but finitely many and comparing its linear coefficient gives . Conversely, if commutes with every , it commutes with for all . Newton identities express in these power sums, so commutes with , in particular for every unit . By [F3] every -fixed operator is for an equivariant polynomial covariant ; evaluating at replaces each by , which is a polynomial in the individual -operators of degree less than , so (the truncated algebra contains exactly the polynomials in each factor and the places). Conversely every element of commutes with the diagonal -action: for put ; each individual satisfies , and each place permutation satisfies . These operators generate , so their products and linear combinations also commute with every . Therefore .
Stable injectivity. Suppose has at least Jordan strings of the maximum length , with top vectors on distinct strings. The vectors with (where is the -th vector of the string) are distinct members of the Jordan tensor basis of ; applying the place permutations gives distinct basis vectors, since the string label of each tensor factor is recovered from the vector and the place permutation is recovered from the ordering of the labels. These vectors span a right -submodule isomorphic to the regular module (the basis vectors , , multiply exactly as the standard basis of the truncated polynomial/permutation algebra), so the right action is injective. For , , and both identities and injectivity reduce to scalar identities.
Remarks
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The identity is the stable-looking half and is proved without normality; the identity is the converse half where the covariant extension theorem is consumed, allowing arbitrary Jordan type and arbitrary .
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The full polynomial/permutation algebra has the same operator image, since each individual satisfies . Truncation removes this kernel; it does not alter either centralizer.
Depends on
- The type-A nilpotent pyramid, good grading and Whittaker character
- Arakawa-Suzuki Casimir operators on tensor functors
- The Casimir and place-permutation operators satisfy the degenerate affine Hecke relations
- Classical complex matrix Lie algebras
- Universal enveloping algebra
- PBW gives an ordered monomial basis for the enveloping algebra
- Type-A nilpotent orbit closures are normal via chain varieties
- Nilpotent-orbit tensor covariants extend and polarize
- Every finite-dimensional nilpotent endomorphism has a basis of Jordan strings
- Nilpotent endomorphisms and their nilpotency index
- The Axiom of Choice
Used by
- Stable range and block idempotent corner for higher-level Schur-Weyl duality Definition
- The deformed tensor space for the type-A finite W-algebra Definition
- The degenerate cyclotomic Hecke algebra Definition
- The Whittaker functor from the relevant parabolic category-O summand Definition
- Vust's double centralizer in a small stable range Example
- The finite W and degenerate cyclotomic Hecke actions satisfy a double centralizer Theorem
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Sources
- Jonathan Brundan and Alexander Kleshchev, Schur-Weyl duality for higher levels, Selecta Math. (N.S.) 14 (2008) 1-57 (complete 50-page arXiv article) (standard reference, not scraped)
- T. Vust, Sur la contraction des espaces de tenseurs, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 289 (1979) A141-A143 (standard reference, not scraped)