A geometric approach to $1$-singular Gelfand-Tsetlin $\mathfrak {gl}_n$-modules
Elizaveta Vishnyakova

TL;DR
This paper introduces a geometric construction of 1-singular Gelfand-Tsetlin modules for a0n using complex geometry, universal rings, and local distributions, providing a new perspective on these algebraic structures.
Contribution
It presents a novel geometric approach to constructing 1-singular Gelfand-Tsetlin modules via universal rings and distributions, extending previous algebraic methods.
Findings
Constructed a universal ring a0o and associated module a0s with basis from local distributions.
Showed that a0s is a natural module over a0o and a Lie algebra a0h.
Derived a universal 1-singular Gelfand-Tsetlin a0gla0n(a0C) module from previous work.
Abstract
This paper is devoted to an elementary new construction of -singular Gelfand-Tsetlin modules using complex geometry. We introduce a universal ring together with the vector space with basis formed from some local distributions such that is a natural -module. For any homomorphism of rings , where is a Lie algebra, it follows that is also an -module. We observe that the homomorphism of rings constructed in [FO] is a homomorphism of type . Using this observation we obtain a construction of the universal -singular Gelfand-Tsetlin -module from [FRG].
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A geometric approach to -singular Gelfand-Tsetlin -modules
Elizaveta Vishnyakova
Abstract
This paper is devoted to an elementary new construction of -singular Gelfand-Tsetlin modules using complex geometry. We introduce a universal ring together with the vector space with basis consisted of some local distributions such that is a natural -module. For any homomorphism of rings , where is a Lie algebra, it follows that is also an -module. We observe that the homomorphism of rings constructed in [FO] is a homomorphism of type . Using this observation we obtain a construction of the universal -singular Gelfand-Tsetlin -module from [FGR].
1 Introduction
This paper is devoted to a new elementary geometric construction of the universal -singular Gelfand-Tsetlin module. Denote , where , and consider the flag of Lie algebras, where is the inclusion with respect to the left top corner. This flag gives rise to the following flag of universal enveloping algebras
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Denote by the center of . Then the subalgebra , generated by , where , is a maximal commutative subalgebra [Ov1]. It is called the Gelfand-Tsetlin subalgebra. A -module is called a Gelfand-Tsetlin module if the action of on is locally finite.
In the classical Gelfand-Tsetlin theory [GT] an explicit construction of an action of with respect to a basis consisting of Gelfand-Tsetlin tableaux is given providing explicit formulas for -action. These formulas for -action are called classical Gelfand-Tsetlin formulas. It was noticed in [DOF1, DOF2, DOF3, DOF4] that the classical Gelfand-Tsetlin formulas may be used to obtain a family of infinite dimensional Gelfand-Tsetlin modules: so-called generic regular Gelfand-Tsetlin modules. An essential progress in the theory of Gelfand-Tsetlin modules was done in [Ov1, Ov2] and later in [FO]. In particular the following important construction was obtained there. Let be the vector space of all Gelfand-Tsetlin tableaux of fixed order , see the main text for details. Denote by a certain abelian group acting freely on and by the sheaf of meromorphic functions on with values in . Then there exists a ring structure on such that the classical Gelfand-Tsetlin formulas define a ring homomorphism . In the case when is holomorphic at a neighborhood of the orbit of a point , we can define a -module structure on the vector space with the basis , where is the evaluation map at the point . These -modules are exactly generic regular Gelfand-Tsetlin modules.
This construction does not work if is not holomorphic in any neighborhood of . The study of the case when is not holomorphic in but has at most one simple pole, or in other words is -singular, was initiated by V. Futorny, D. Grantcharov and E. Ramirez in [FGR]. The authors [FGR] constructed the universal -singular Gelfand-Tsetlin -module using additional formal variables that were called derivative tableaux. For another construction of the universal -singular Gelfand-Tsetlin -module see [Z], which was posted to the arXiv when the present paper was in preparation.
In the present paper we define a subring of , where is a certain point of a -singular -orbit. To the ring we associate the vector space with basis consisting of some local distributions supported at such that is a natural -module. In particular this implies the following universal property of : for any homomorphism of rings the vector space is also an -module. Due to this we call the ring the universal ring. Further, we observe that . Hence our construction gives rise to a -module structure on that is isomorphic to the universal -singular Gelfand-Tsetlin module obtained in [FGR]. Our observation leads to a new geometric interpretation of the universal -singular Gelfand-Tsetlin module from [FGR] that allows to simplify proofs from [FGR] and avoid the use of formal variables. Moreover, similar ideas that we present here can be used in the case of other singularities, see [EMV].
Acknowledgements: E. V. was partially partially supported by SFB TR 191 and by the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
2 Preliminaries
A Gelfand-Tsetlin tableau is a tableau of complex numbers, where and . Further we will consider the set of all Gelfand-Tsetlin tableaux as a complex manifold that is isomorphic to . Let be the free abelian group generated by , where . We fix the following action of on : , where and is the Kronecker delta. This is if and otherwise. Further we put , so is the product of symmetric groups . The group acts on in the following way where . Denote by and by the sheaves of meromorphic and holomorphic functions on , respectively. Let us take , and . We set
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These formulas define an action of on and actions of on and on , respectively.
Denote by the sheaf of meromorphic functions on with values in . An element of is a finite sum , where and . In other words, is the sheaf of meromorphic sections of the trivial bundle . There exists a structure of a skew group ring on , see [FO]. Indeed,
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Here and . This skew group ring we denote by . To simplify notations we use for the multiplication in and for the product in . On we will consider also the following multiplication .
Recall that a Gelfand-Tsetlin tableau is called generic if for any and . The definition of a standard Gelfand-Tsetlin tableau can be found in [FGR]. The classical Gelfand-Tsetlin formulas have the following form in terms of generators of , see for instance [FGR], Theorems and , for details.
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Here are standard generators and is either a standard or generic Gelfand-Tsetlin tableau with coordinates and . Assume that is a generic Gelfand-Tsetlin tableau. Theorem in [FGR] says that Formulas (1) define a -module structure on the vector space spanned by the elements of the orbit .
Let us identify the point with the evaluation map . Then we can define the map using the equality for generic. Since generic points are dense in , is a well-defined element of . For example,
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In [FO] the following theorem was proved.
**Theorem 1. ** The map is a homomorphism of rings. Here , where , is as above.
Remark. Note that is -invariant. This fact can be verified directly.
From Theorem 2 it follows that for any generic the formula defines an action of on the vector space spanned by local distributions , where . Here and for . Since elements are holomorphic in a sufficiently small neighborhood of the orbit , the expression is well-defined. More generally, any homomorphism of rings , where is any Lie algebra, such that the image is holomorphic in a neighborhood of defines an action of on the vector space spanned by the local distributions , where . The interpretation of a point as a local distribution suggests the possibility to define a -module structure on other local distributions, i.e. on linear maps with , where and is the maximal ideal in the local algebra . This idea we develop in the present paper.
The main problem is that the ring does not act on the vector space of local distributions, because of singularities. In the next section we will construct the universal ring , where is a certain -singular point in and is the stabilizer of . We will show that acts on -invariant holomorphic functions , where the action is given by . This action induces an action of on -invariant holomorphic local distributions supported at . By Theorem 2 we have also a structure of -module on the vector space of these local distributions. Further we will consider local distributions , where . Clearly this vector space is - and hence -submodule. The last step is to find a basis for the vector space spanned by . This basis we call the universal basis for the universal ring .
Our construction implies that for any homomorphism , where is a Lie algebra, is a basis for the corresponding -module. We will see that and that coincide with the basis constructed in [FGR]. We develop these ideas in the case of any point in [EMV].
3 Main result
A point is called -singular if there exist and , where , such that and , where , for each . Note that the generators from (1) have one simple pole at the orbit for any -singular point . Let us fix an -singular point such that . We put , and we denote by other coordinates in . So are new coordinates in . From now on we fix a point and a sufficiently small neighborhood of the orbit that is invariant with respect to the group and with respect to , where is defined by and , . From now on we will consider restrictions of elements of on . We denote by the stabilizer of .
We say that an element is at most -singular at , if , where are holomorphic at or have the form , where are holomorphic at . We need the following proposition.
**Proposition 1. ** Let , where and are holomorphic in . Then the product is at most -singular at .
Proof. Assume by induction that for our statement holds. In other words, assume that , where are holomorphic at . We have
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Assume that this product is two singular at . Note that is holomorphic in . Therefore, for a certain and, hence, . Further, , since is -invariant. Therefore . Hence is also -invariant and . Therefore, , where is holomorphic at . Therefore, is -singular. The proof is complete.
Remark. Elements as in Proposition 3 generate a subring in . We call this ring the universal ring of . By Proposition 3 any element in is at most -singular at . If is a generator of and , then is at most -singular at , holomorphic in and -invariant. Therefore and hence is holomorphic. So we defined an action of on .
We put , where . Consider the following set of -invariant local distributions defined on :
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Note that and are elements of , hence Formulas (2) are well-defined. Moreover we have the following equalities
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Denote and consider the set . The set is a set of linearly independent distributions defined on . To see this we should apply to a linear combination of -invariant functions and . Hence is a basis of the vector subspace in spanned by elements from . In the next proposition we show that is a - and -module. This -module is isomorphic to the universal -singular Gelfand-Tsetlin module constructed in [FGR], see Section for details.
**Proposition 2. ** Let us take . Then we have
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where . Note that in the case if is holomorphic, we have and . Therefore, is a -module with basis .
Proof. Using the series expansion , we get
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Note that for . Using the symmetrization , we obtain the result.
Let be one of generators (1). Clearly , see Remark after Theorem 2.
Theorem 2. [Main result 1] The vector space spanned by elements of is a -module. The action is given by Formulas (4).
Proof. The result follows from Theorem 2 and Proposition 3. Indeed, , hence we get a -module.
In fact we proved a more general result than it is formulated in Theorem 3.
Theorem 3. [Main result 2] Let be a Lie algebra and be a homomorphism of rings. Then the vector space spanned by elements from is an -module. In other words the basis is universal for any homomorphisms .
4 Appendix
Theorem 3 recovers one of the main results of [FGR], a construction of the universal -module. Another main result of [FGR] is that in many cases the -module is irreducible, see Theorem . Let us give an explicit correspondence between the basis constructed in [FGR] and our basis . We use notations from [FGR]. In [FGR] the authors consider the basis , where , such that , and , see Remark in [FGR]. The element was considered as a point in and was considered as a formal additional variable. (In our notations, is just , where as above.) Further, in [FGR] the action of is given by the following formulas, [FGR, Theorem 4.11]:
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where are coordinates in a neighborhood of . The explicit correspondence between the bases is given by the following formulas
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