Cuspidal modules for the derivation Lie algebra over a rational quantum torus
Chengkang Xu

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This paper provides an explicit description of cuspidal modules for the derivation Lie algebra over a rational quantum torus, including their structure and the action of the center, advancing understanding in quantum algebra representations.
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It introduces a detailed structural characterization of cuspidal modules for derivation Lie algebras over rational quantum tori, incorporating the center's action.
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Explicit module structures characterized
Inclusion of the center's action in the module description
Enhanced understanding of derivation Lie algebra representations
Abstract
Let denote a rational quantum torus with variables, and be the centre of . In this paper we give a explicit description of the structure of the cuspidal modules for the derivation Lie algebra over , with an extra associative -action.
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TopicsAlgebraic structures and combinatorial models · Advanced Topics in Algebra · Nonlinear Waves and Solitons
Cuspidal modules for the derivation Lie algebra
over a rational quantum torus
Chengkang Xu*∗*
School of Mathematical Science, Shangrao Normal University, Shangrao, China
\par\par* Corresponding author. The author is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 11626157, 11801375). E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Let denote a rational quantum torus with variables, and be the centre of . In this paper we give a explicit description of the structure of the cuspidal modules for the derivation Lie algebra over , with an extra associative -action.
Keywords: derivation Lie algebra; cuspidal module; rational quantum torus; module of tensor fields.
1 Introduction
In the past few decades, the representation theory of the derivation algebra over a torus has attracted many mathematicians and physicists. Let be a positive integer. Denote by the commuting torus in variables , and by the derivation algebra over . Irreducible modules with finite dimensional weight spaces over were classified in [BF1]. They are modules of tensor fields constructed independently by Shen[S] and Larsson[Lar], and modules of highest weight type given in [BB]. For the derivation algebra over a rational quantum torus , although the modules of tensor fields were constructed in [LT] and [LiuZ2] and the modules of highest weight type were given in [Xu], we are still far from the complete classification of irreducible modules with finite dimensional weight spaces for . However, some partial classifications are known to us. For example, irreducible -modules with certain -action were classified in [RBS]. In [LiuZ2], Liu and Zhao classified irreducible cuspidal -modules with an extra associative action of the centre of . These modules were constructed using a finite dimensional irreducible -module and a finite dimensional -graded irreducible -module . Here is a positive number closely related to the structure of , and is a subgroup of corresponding to the center . To achieve their classification result in [LiuZ2], Liu and Zhao used heavy computations(totally five pages of them). Moreover, the appearance of the algebra in the proof seems a little farfetched, and it is not clear what is the relation between the -module and the -graded -module .
In this paper we study -modules(not necessarily irreducible) with an extra associative -action. We will simply call such a module a -module. Our main result is that cuspidal -modules with support lying in one coset , are in a one-to-one correspondence with finite dimensional -graded modules over a subalgebra of , where . The algebra has a quotient isomorphic to . We will use some results about the solenoidal Lie algebras over and , which were given in [BF2] and [Xu2] separately. As a corollary, we reprove the classification of irreducible cuspidal -modules, in a more conceptional way. From our proof one can see clearly that the algebras and their modules appear naturally. We mention that Liu and Zhao classified irreducible cuspidal -modules with no other restriction in [LiuZ] using the classification result in [LiuZ2] and a method introduced in [BF1].
The present paper is arranged as follows. In Section 2 we recall some results about the quantum torus , the algebras , the solenoidal Lie algebra over and the solenoidal Lie algebra over . Section 3 is devoted to finite dimensional -modules. In Section 4 we prove our main theorem about the cuspidal -modules and classify irreducible cuspidal -modules once again.
Throughout this paper, refer to the set of complex numbers, integers, nonnegative integers and positive integers respectively. For a Lie algebra , we denote by the universal enveloping algebra of . Fix and a standard basis for the space . Denote by the inner product on .
2 Notations and Preliminaries
For a Lie algebra, a weight module is called a cuspidal module if all weight spaces are uniformly bounded. The support of a weight module is defined to be the set of all weights.
For we denote by the monomial in . Then the derivation Lie algebra over has a basis subject to the Lie bracket
[TABLE]
Let be generic, which means that are linearly independent over the field of rational numbers. The solenoidal Lie algebra over is the subalgebra of spanned by . Many others call (centerless) higher rank Virasoro algebra.
Let be a complex matrix with all being roots of unity and satisfying The rational quantum torus relative to is the unital associative algebra with multiplication
[TABLE]
For we denote . For , set
[TABLE]
Then the center of is spanned by . By [BGK], the derivation Lie algebra over has a basis
[TABLE]
where is the degree derivation with respect to defined by , and is the inner derivation given by . For convenience we will simply write .
By Theorem 4.5 in [N], up to an isomorphism of , we may assume that for , and other entries of are all 1, where with and the orders of as roots of unity satisfy for . In this paper we always assume that is of this form, and keep the notation and . Then the subgroup of has the simple form
[TABLE]
and the center becomes a commuting torus on variables
[TABLE]
Moreover, we have
[TABLE]
Set for and . Then the Lie bracket of is
[TABLE]
where and .
Denote by the ideal of the associative algebra generated by elements . By [N], we have , where and denotes the associative algebra of all complex matrices. It is well known that can be generated as an associative algebra by
[TABLE]
where is the matrix with 1 at the -entry and 0 elsewhere. Denote for . It is easy to see that for any , is the identity matrix in , and for any . Then the general linear Lie algebra has Lie bracket
[TABLE]
Set and let denote the image of . Clearly, has order and the algebra has a -gradation where . In this paper by a -gradation on we always mean this gradation. Set
[TABLE]
which is a complete set of representatives for . When a representative of is needed we always choose the one .
Let be generic. A solenoidal Lie algebra over is the subalgebra of spanned by
[TABLE]
We mention that the subalgebra spanned by
[TABLE]
is isomorphic to the Lie algebra through the map defined by
[TABLE]
where and is the matrix .
3 Finite dimensional -modules
In this section we introduce the Lie algebra and study its modules of finite dimension. For we will denote by the image of in . Let and for all . Then becomes an associative algebra. For set
[TABLE]
Denote by the Lie subalgebra of spanned by
[TABLE]
The Lie algebra has Lie bracket
[TABLE]
where and . It is easy to see that is -graded, i.e., , where
[TABLE]
On the other hand, may be decomposed into the sum of two subalgebras
[TABLE]
and
[TABLE]
Set for all , and for write . This gives -gradations on the algebras and . For , set
[TABLE]
Then we have and .
Set , which is a subspace of . These subspaces do not make the whole algebra -graded, since the derivations , are not homogeneous. However, still makes a -graded ideal of . Write and . The main result in this section is the following
Theorem 3.1**.**
*(1) The commutator ;
(2) For every finite dimensional -module , there exists an integer such that .
(3) For every finite dimensional -module , there exists an integer such that .
(4) The ideal annihilates any finite dimensional irreducible -module.*
Proof. (1) is easy to check by equation (3.1). For (2) we choose a basis , of with all being generic. Then has a decomposition , where are subalgebras of . Notice that for each , the subalgebra is exactly the infinite dimensional Lie algebra studied in [BF1]. By Theorem 3.1 in [BF1] we see that there exists an integer such that . Then (2) stands for the integer .
To prove (3) we consider as an -module and let be as in (2). For choose such that . Then the equation
[TABLE]
implies that if . This proves (3).
Let be a finite dimensional irreducible -module with representation map . Since is an ideal of , the subspace is a -submodule of . By (3) and equation (3.1) we see that is nilpotent. Then the Lie’s Theorem implies that is nonzero, hence by the irreducibility of . So , proving (4).
At last we mention that the quotient is isomorphic to the direct sum as Lie algebras. The isomorphism map is given by
[TABLE]
where and is the matrix with 1 at the -th entry and 0 elsewhere. Through this map we also have and .
4 Cuspidal -modules
In this section we study cuspidal -modules with support lying in one coset for some . Fix such a -module, where is the weight space with weight . Clearly we have . Since is a free -module, we may write
[TABLE]
where for . Set , which is a -graded space.
We should introduce some operators in that act on . Set for and , acts on each , hence on . For , define the operator to be the restriction of mapping to for each . The commutators among these operators are
[TABLE]
where . Since for , we have
[TABLE]
the operators completely determine the -action on . Furthermore, the operators may be restricted to , and may be considered as an operator from to for each . In other words, are of degree and are of degree in .
Let be a basis of with all being generic. Recall the solenoidal Lie algebra over , the solenoidal Lie algebra over the commuting torus . Then the algebra may be decomposed into direct sum of subalgebras
[TABLE]
Here are solenoidal Lie algebras over the commuting torus . By results from [BF1] and [Xu2], we know that the operators and , have polynomial dependence on with coefficients in . Moreover, the constant term of on each is . Hence are polynomials on , since they are linear combinations of .
Set
[TABLE]
where are operators in of degree and are operators of degree .
Now by expanding the equations in (4.1) and comparing coefficients at both sides, we get the following commutators
[TABLE]
where and . Recall the Lie bracket of the algebra from equation (3.1) and we see from equations in (4.3) that the operators
[TABLE]
yield a finite dimensional -graded representation for on . Denote by this representation map. Then combining equation (4.2) we obtain
Theorem 4.1**.**
There exists an equivalence between the category of finite dimensional -graded -modules and the category of cuspidal -modules with support lying in some coset . This equivalence functor associates to a finite dimensional -graded -module an -module
[TABLE]
with the -action
[TABLE]
where and .
As a consequence we classify irreducible cuspidal -modules, which was first done in [LiuZ2]. First we recall modules of tensor fields over the algebra . Let and let be a finite dimensional -module, a finite dimensional -graded -module. On the tensor space there is a -module structure defined by
[TABLE]
for and . We denote this module by , called a module of tensor fields for . Clearly, becomes a -module provided the -action
[TABLE]
Moreover, is irreducible as a -module as long as are irreducible.
Theorem 4.2**.**
Any irreducible cuspidal -module is isomorphic to for some , finite dimensional irreducible -module and finite dimensional -graded irreducible -module .
By applying Theorem 4.1, we will prove this theorem again in a rather conceptional way. Let be an irreducible cuspidal -module. By Theorem 4.1, , where is a finite dimensional irreducible -graded -module. By Theorem 3.1(4) we have . Notice that the ideal is still -graded. This reduces to a -graded and irreducible module over , which is isomorphic to . The following lemma is from [Li].
Lemma 4.3**.**
Let be two associative algebras with identity and be an irreducible module over . Suppose that is of countable dimension. Then is isomorphic to an -module of the form , where is an irreducible -submodule of , and is a natural irreducible -module given by
[TABLE]
Denote , which is -graded with graded spaces and for . Fix a such that . Notice that is a -module through the -action. Fix an irreducible -submodule of and set for any . Let
[TABLE]
and define
[TABLE]
where is an element in . Clearly this makes a -graded -module. By Lemma 4.3 we have . Moreover, is irreducible as a -module since is irreducible as a -module. This proves Theorem 4.2.
From the proof above one can see that all irreducible -submodules of are isomorphic to .
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