Olshanski's Centralizer Construction and Deligne Tensor Categories
Alexandra Utiralova

TL;DR
This paper generalizes Olshanski's centralizer construction of the Yangian to Deligne tensor categories, establishing a new algebraic relationship without taking limits, thus broadening the scope of classical representation theory results.
Contribution
It introduces a limit-free generalization of Olshanski's centralizer construction within Deligne tensor categories, connecting Yangians and universal enveloping algebras for complex parameters.
Findings
Centralizer subalgebra of $GL_t$-invariants is isomorphic to a tensor product of $Y(rak{gl}_n)$ and the center of $U(rak{gl}_t)$.
The construction applies for generic complex $t$, avoiding the limit process used in classical approaches.
Provides a new algebraic framework extending classical representation theory to complex rank categories.
Abstract
The family of Deligne tensor categories is obtained from the categories of finite dimensional representations of groups by interpolating the integer parameter to complex values. Therefore, it is a valuable tool for generalizing classical statements of representation theory. In this work we introduce and prove the generalization of Olshanski's centralizer construction of the Yangian . Namely, we prove that for generic the centralizer subalgebra of -invariants in the universal enveloping algebra is the tensor product of and the center of . The main feature of this construction is that it does not involve passing to a limit, contrary to the original construction of Olshanski.
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Olshanski’s Centralizer Construction and Deligne Tensor Categories
Alexandra Utiralova
Abstract
The family of Deligne tensor categories is obtained from the categories of finite dimensional representations of groups by interpolating the integer parameter to complex values. Therefore, it is a valuable tool for generalizing classical statements of representation theory. In this work we introduce and prove the generalization of Olshanski’s centralizer construction of the Yangian . Namely, we prove that for generic the centralizer subalgebra of -invariants in the universal enveloping algebra is the tensor product of and the center of . The main feature of this construction is that it does not involve passing to a limit, contrary to the original construction of Olshanski.
1 Introduction.
Categories of finite dimensional representations of classical groups such as , form families of categories algebraically depending on a parameter . The first definition for interpolation of these categories to complex values of for the group – the family of categories – was given in the classical text by Deligne and Milne Tannakian categories [DM]. In his further works [D2], [D3] Deligne developed this construction: he showed, for instance, that these categories are semisimple for all non-integer and proved the universal property which will be discussed below. He also defined interpolation categories for other classical groups: , [D1], that are known now together with as Deligne categories. Like in any symmetric tensor category, there are well defined notions of associative algebras, Lie algebras, Hopf algebras, etc. in Deligne categories. Such algebras generalize the notion of algebras with an action of a group, some examples of which for the group are the universal enveloping algebra or the Yangian .
We are interested in the categories . For these we will introduce the analogues of the Yangian and the universal enveloping algebra and will state and prove a generalization of the centralizer construction of the Yangian originally proved by Grigori Olshanski in [O1]. Namely, the centralizer construction describes the tensor product (where is the free polynomial algebra with the generators of degrees ) as the limit of the centralizer subalgebras as . A justification and detailed description of the aforementioned construction could be found, for example, in the book by A. Molev Yangians and classical Lie algebras [M]. We prove the following
Main Theorem. For any transcendental we have .
Similar statement was proved by Molev and Olshanski for twisted Yangians in [MO]. We believe that this result can also be generalized for Deligne categories .
The paper is organized as follows.
In Section 2 we recall the definitions and main properties of Deligne categories and Yangians and define Yangian of . In Section 3 we give a precise formulation of the Main Theorem. In Section 4 we prove the Main Theorem. The Appendix (Section 5) contains technical results on the abelian envelope of the Deligne category used in the present paper.
Acknowledgements.
I want to thank Leonid Rybnikov for suggesting this problem to me and for all the discussions we had about it and Pavel Etingof for all the valuable advice.
2 Some definitions and preliminaries.
It is well known that the group has the fundamental irreducible dimensional representation that is faithful, and therefore, all other irreducible finite dimensional representations can be realized as sub- and factor-modules of representations of the form . Now, knowing the fundamental theorem of invariant theory and Schur-Weyl duality, we can easily describe morphisms between the representations of this kind. It motivates the following definition:
**Definition 2.1: ** Define the rigid additive symmetric tensor category , generated by a single object of dimension . That is, the category with objects of the form and all possible finite direct sums of such objects. The generating object would be an analogue of the fundamental representation of the group , therefore, similarly to the classical case we require:
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if . In the case when ,
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is isomorphic to with the standard action of on .
By "of dimension " we mean that the composition of coevaluation and evaluation
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is the multiplication by .
Morphisms between objects in are linear combinations of diagrams of the following kind:
Here, stands for and stands for ; vertical straight lines going from top to bottom are the identity morphisms; curved lines at the top row stand for the evaluation, at the bottom row - - coevaluation. In our case it represents the map .
To compose two such morphisms one should place the second diagram below (Pic.1) and compose the edges, then delete every cycle, keeping in mind that it is a multiplication by (Pic.2):
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Pic.1
tPic.2
Note: The algebra is known as the Walled Brauer Algebra .
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The Deligne category is the Karoubi envelope of the category .
This category is semisimple (and hence abelian) for and has the following universal property: if is a rigid symmetric additive tensor category then isomorphism classes of additive symmetric monoidal functors are in bijection with isomorphism classes of objects of dimension in . It means that any such functor is defined up to an isomorphism by the image of .[E2]
Using this property we can define the functors
2.
3.
**Definition 2.2: ** Let be the abelian envelope of . It was shown in [H], that it exists and is also a symmetric tensor category.
**Lemma 2.3. ** Let be an abelian symmetric tensor category over a field of characteristic zero, and a filtered algebra in the Ind-completion of the category generated by in degree 1 such that . Let be the Karoubian subcategory in generated by tensor powers of . Then for each the object is in .
Proof.
We have a surjective map , let be its kernel. And let . Then , hence, . Therefore, is isomorphic to as a filtered Ind-object.
**Definition 2.4: ** The algebra - is an algebra in the category with a multiplication :
\textstyle{(V^{*}\otimes V)\otimes(V^{*}\otimes V)\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\scriptstyle{m=\mathrm{ev}_{23}}$$\textstyle{V^{*}\otimes V}
Now we can define the Lie algebra (or just as the Lie algebra
in the category with a commutator :
[TABLE] \textstyle{(V^{*}\otimes V)\otimes(V^{*}\otimes V)\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\scriptstyle{c=m-m\circ P}$$\textstyle{V^{*}\otimes V}$$\textstyle{\Lambda^{2}(V^{*}\otimes V)\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}
where is the permutation of the factors of the form .
For any object the tensor algebra is a well defined Ind-object in our category isomorphic to
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with standard multiplication.
Define the universal enveloping algebra to be a quotient of the tensor algebra:
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where , where is just the inclusion of the k-th graded component.
A priori is a filtered algebra in (the filtration on is inherited from the grading on the tensor algebra). But Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt (PBW) theorem holds for Lie algebras in any symmetric tensor category over a field of characteristics zero, therefore, the conditions of Lemma 2.3. are satisfied for . Hence, is indeed a well-defined Ind-object in and is isomorphic to the symmetric algebra .
It follows that the invariants in both algebras coincide: and they are isomorphic to , where , where each has degree (which was proved in [E2]).
Now we will define the Yangian as an algebra in the category as follows. Let be the space of generators of this algebra and let .
Define the map and the maps as follows: and .
a_{i}:$$($$)_{i}
Now we can define as . Note that since and are algebras in our category (clearly, is isomorphic to ), the vector space is an ordinary associative algebra.
Remembering the classical RTT-relation for the Yangian, define the matrix in
as .
-$$u^{-1}$$R(u)=
Let be an algebra . We can give the embedding of the elements we have just defined into :
\textstyle{\widetilde{T}(u)_{1}:\mathbb{1}\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\scriptstyle{\widetilde{T}(u)_{12}\otimes\mathrm{coev}_{3}}$$\textstyle{\underset{1}{\widetilde{Y}}\otimes\underset{2}{(V\otimes V^{*})}\otimes\underset{3}{(V\otimes V^{*})},}$$\textstyle{\widetilde{T}(v)_{2}:\mathbb{1}\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\scriptstyle{\widetilde{T}(v)_{13}\otimes\mathrm{coev}_{2}}$$\textstyle{\underset{1}{\widetilde{Y}}\otimes\underset{2}{(V\otimes V^{*})}\otimes\underset{3}{(V\otimes V^{*})},}$$\textstyle{{R}(u-v):\mathbb{1}\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\scriptstyle{{R}(u-v)_{23}\otimes(\mathbf{1}_{\widetilde{Y}})_{1}}$$\textstyle{\underset{1}{\widetilde{Y}}\otimes\underset{2}{(V\otimes V^{*})}\otimes\underset{3}{(V\otimes V^{*})},}
(with two different embeddings of ).
I.e. we have defined and for each :
(a_{i})_{1}:$$($$)_{i}$$(a_{i})_{2}:$$($$)_{i}
Now we are ready to define the Yangian , which we will refer to as or just when there is no ambiguity.
**Definition 2.5: ** Consider the evaluation .
And consider a map . Let be an ideal generated by the image of the following composition:
\textstyle{(V^{*}\otimes V)^{\otimes 2}\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\scriptstyle{f\otimes id}$$\textstyle{\widetilde{Y}\otimes(V\otimes V^{*})^{\otimes 2}\otimes(V^{*}\otimes V)^{\otimes 2}\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\scriptstyle{\varepsilon}$$\textstyle{\widetilde{Y}}
By Theorem 5.2 (see the Appendix), the conditions of Lemma 2.3 hold for inside . Therefore, is a well-defined Ind-object of .
Let be the composition of with the projection . It is an element of the algebra . Its zero term is the unit of the algebra . Therefore, is invertible.
Let for any object be the natural isomorphism. Note that is the identity map for and is the evaluation.
Let be any invertible element, . Then defines an automorphism (which we denote ) of , which is defined on generators as follows: (basically, each determines where the th generator goes). It is easy to see that defines the identity morphism on .
Now if we want an invertible element to define an automorphism of , we should require that inside
.
Similarly, defines an anti-automorphism of if .
**Lemma 2.6. ** The shift is an automorphism of for any . The maps and are anti-automorphisms.
Proof.
The equation
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is obtained by the change of variables . 2. 2.
For we note that commutes with , since . Clearly, . It is also easy to see that . Therefore,
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[TABLE] 3. 3.
is an anti-automorphism since
[TABLE]
is clearly equivalent to the RTT relation .
(Side note: the map is actually the antipode of .)
**Corollary 2.7. ** Let be a map defined by . Then is an automorphism of .
We can rewrite the relation for in the following way: instead of the map
f=$$-$$-$$+
we can consider a map
f^{\prime}=$$($$)$$-$$-$$($$)$$($$)$$($$)$$-$$+.
If we identify with , then this map is equal to
[TABLE]
because
P(a_{1})_{2}=$$($$)_{1}$$(a_{1})_{2}P=$$($$)_{1}
Now consider the coefficient of in the RTT-relation
[TABLE]
Clearly, it is the same as the coefficient of in the following expression:
[TABLE]
And this coefficient is equal to .
Therefore, the restriction of the RTT-relation to the subalgebra of coincides with the relation for . Hence, we have the embedding and, most importantly, the evaluation map:
[TABLE]
that sends to and sends to zero when . Clearly, the composition of with the embedding is the identity on .
3 The main theorem.
To obtain Olshanski’s classical centralizer construction of the Yangian , we consider the centralizers , where the subalgebra is embedded canonically into , i.e. it is generated by the elements (in this notation is the center of ). We also need the surjective restrictions that respect filtrations inherited from and correspondingly. The explicit construction for these maps could be found in Section of Molev’s book [M]. Consider the diagram
\textstyle{\ldots\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\textstyle{A_{n}(N+1)\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\textstyle{A_{n}(N)\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\textstyle{...\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\textstyle{A_{n}(n),}
and let be its projective limit in the category of filtered algebras. Then Olshanski’s theorem says that
[TABLE]
The map from the Yangian to the limit is given by the family of maps that commute with the maps in the diagram. By construction, each is the restriction of the composition of the automorphism and the evaluation homomorphism to the canonically embedded subalgebra . [M]
The algebra is the polynomial algebra in variables of degrees , that correspond to the traces of degrees of the matrix . Thus the projective limit is the polynomial algebra in variables . We will keep this notation for our statement. For each we have a map whose image is just the center of . Then is mapped to via the map . The induced map to the limit is the isomorphism we wished for.
Now consider the restriction of the universal enveloping algebra of via the restriction functor defined above:
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The analogue for the centralizer of the subalgebra inside it would be "the invariants of the action of ", i.e.
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We will prove the following statement, which is our main result.
**Theorem 3.1. ** For any transcendental
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Note that our construction doesn’t require passing to limits.
**Remark 3.2: ** In fact, the theorem that we are going to prove says that we have such an isomorphism for Weyl generic , i.e. for all except a countable number of values. However, it follows immediately from the discussion below that if the statement of Theorem 3.1 holds for at least one transcendental , then it holds for all .
The category is linear over . Given some map of fields we can perform the base change on turning it into linear category.
One can construct for transcendental as a subcategory of the ultraproduct of categories , which becomes a -linear category after choosing the identification with , where is some nontrivial ultrafilter on . This construction was discussed in [D1] and is similar to the construction we introduce in the Appendix.
Now for any two transcendental complex numbers there exists an automorphism of over that sends to . The base change of via this automorphism is then (using the construction above) for any . Therefore,
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for any transcendental .
4 Proof of Theorem 3.1.
First we want to define a map . Let be the composition
\textstyle{Y_{t+n}\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\scriptstyle{\omega_{t+n}}$$\scriptstyle{F}$$\textstyle{Y_{t+n}\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\scriptstyle{E}$$\textstyle{U({\mathfrak{gl}}_{t+n}).}
The restriction is an algebra in the category with the generators . It has two trivially embedded subalgebras: and the "real" Yangian generated by . Thus, is clearly a subalgebra in the algebra of invariants . Whilst is a subalgebra in the algebra of invariants of .
Then let be the restriction to of the map
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Since , we have the homomorphism
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Therefore, we have a well defined homomorphism of algebras . We want to show that it is surjective for all and injective for Weyl generic .
4.1 Surjectivity:
Let . It is easy to see that
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( gives an automorphism and putting all for means composing it with the evaluation homomorphism).
Remember that is the isomorphism between and . Then it is easy to compute :
((()_{1}$$)_{1}$$)_{1}$$\cdot$$\cdot$$\cdot$$\ldots$$\tau(a_{1}^{k}):
where stands for multiplication in .
The map acts on the generators in the same way as the composition of the restriction of (the term in inner brackets is the k-th term in ) to with the evaluation homomorphism to (i.e. after expanding as a combination of terms of the form , in the diagram above one should interpret as and as its dual, then take the restriction to , and then map each term isomorphically to ):
((()$$)$$)$$\star$$\star$$\star$$\ldots$$+$$\psi|_{T^{k}}=\sum_{i}\binom{k}{i}(t+n)^{k-i}
((()$$)$$)$$\star$$\star$$\star$$\ldots
Here, is the multiplication in , and denote and correspondingly and the number of terms in brackets is equal to .
We can introduce a filtration on that comes from the grading on where . PBW for the Yangian says that . And the filtration on is induced from the grading defined before: . Then we have a filtration on
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To prove the surjectivity of , it is enough to show that the induced map of associated graded algebras is surjective. To obtain from , we should forget about the lower order terms in and change the multiplication to the commutative multiplication in , i.e. instead of the sum over all we’ll get that is just the sum of two maps :
((()$$)$$)$$\ldots$$+$$\psi^{gr}|_{T^{k}}=
((()$$)$$)$$\ldots
It is obvious that the subalgebra in generated by maps isomorphically to the subalgebra . This means that we a priori have all invariants of the form
((()$$)$$)$$\ldots . So, since the second term in maps into this subalgebra, we can forget about it. So, let be the image of the first term of :
((()$$)$$)$$\ldots$$a_{k}=
.
The variable is mapped to the sum of the following invariants in
((()$$)$$)$$\ldots$$+$$\mathcal{Z}^{gr}(x_{k})=
((()$$)$$)$$\ldots
The second term is again in , so we can forget it. Let denote the first term:
((()$$)$$)$$\ldots$$b_{k}=$$(*)
We want to show now the all that invariants in are in the image of , i.e. they are polynomiars in . Let us lift everything to and check that we get all the invariants up to permutations.
Consider the -th graded component of the tensor algebra. Of all direct summands in this product we are interested only in those that contain equal number of terms and , since these are the only summands that contain invariants. For convenience let denote , – ,
– , –. In this notation
. We are interested in strings of symbols of length containing equal number of black () and white () circles. A priori white figures (
and ) and black figures () come in pairs, white before black. We are interested in these strings up to permutations of such pairs (because acts on permuting pairs and we are interested in the invariants inside the symmetric algebra ). Note that all the pairs of the form
are factors that come from , so we can forget them. All the invariants come from coevaluations of and , therefore, if our string (of length ) doesn’t contain any squares, then the invariants in it are monomials of the form of degree (modulo some terms from ). Indeed, we start with some pair and should come from coevaluation, so there must be a to pair it with; if it is the first one, we’re done, because is just ; if not - there must be another pair of and so on until we get the cycle as in (*)). Thus, we have got a factor of the form , where is the number of pairs ( involved. Then we proceed by looking at any other pair (that is not involved in ) and repeat the algorithm.
If there are some squares in the string then
and come in equal numbers, so we can assume that there is a pair of the form
(because we forget the pairs of the form
). Take it to be the first pair. So must come from coevaluation, so there is a to pair it with. We choose the second pair containing the aforementioned . Now if the second factor is then we again look for a to pair it with, and so on until we reach a square . Clearly, this gives us a factor of the form
((()$$)$$)$$\otimes$$\otimes$$\otimes$$\ldots$$\otimes$$\otimes
And this is just . So, we have proved the surjectivity.
4.2 Injectivity:
Consider the maps from Olshanski’s construction:
\textstyle{Y_{n}\otimes A_{0}\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\scriptstyle{\varphi_{\infty}}$$\scriptstyle{\varphi_{N+n}}$$\textstyle{A_{n}\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\textstyle{A_{n}(N+n)}
Since is an embedding and is finite dimensional, there exists s.t. restricted to is also an embedding for any .
It follows from our construction that the functor takes the Yangian to . Moreover, and the subalgebra is mapped to the subalgebra . The invariants are mapped to the invariants . Note that the restriction of the monoidal functor to the invariants is just the map of algebras and we have the following commutative diagram:
\textstyle{Y_{n}\otimes A_{0}\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\scriptstyle{\varphi}$$\scriptstyle{\varphi_{N+n}}$$\textstyle{\operatorname{Res}_{n}(U({\mathfrak{gl}}_{t+n}))^{GL_{t}}\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces\ignorespaces}$$\scriptstyle{Ev_{N}}$$\textstyle{U({\mathfrak{gl}}_{N+n})^{{\mathfrak{gl}}_{N}}}
Let be the kernel of the map Then the intersection is a subspace that algebraically depends on . Since for big enough restricted to is injective, restricted to this subspace is necessary injective. Therefore, for any . Hence, for any in some Zariski open set in (i.e. for all , except for a finite number of points). Since , the kernel is zero for Weyl generic .
It proves the theorem.
5 Appendix: Ultraproduct construction and PBW theorem for the Yangian.
We follow the work of Nate Harman [H] in this section. Our goal is to prove PBW for the Yangian defined in the abelian envelope of .
Given a non-principal ultrafilter on and categories one can define the ultraproduct of these categories . The objects in this category are represented by strings of objects s.t. and two such strings define the same object of if they agree on a set belonging to . Morphisms are represented by pointwise morphisms between such strings with a similar equivalence relation.
Let be a sequence of prime numbers tending to infinity. Fix an isomorphism . Let be represented by with . And let be a sequence of natural numbers tending to infinity, s.t. . Let and let be the fundamental -dimensional representation. Then we have the following statement:
**Theorem 5.1. ** Let be an object in represented by the string . And let be the subcategory generated by under the operations of taking duals, tensor products, direct sums, and direct summands and - the same but also allowing taking subquotients. Then is equivalent to and - to its abelian envelope.
We refer the reader to the original article for more detail.
What is important for us is that the proof of PBW for the Yangian (given for example in Molev’s book [M]) works in any characteristic. The Yangian (introduced in Def.2.5.) is then well defined in and represented by the string , where is the classical Yangian over the field . Since for all of them we have an isomorphism , the same must be true for and thus we have proved the following theorem.
**Theorem 5.2. ** Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem holds for the Yangian defined in the category , in other words, there is an isomorphism of filtered -objects .
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