The category of weight modules for symplectic oscillator Lie algebras
Genqiang Liu, Kaiming Zhao

TL;DR
This paper classifies simple weight modules with finite-dimensional weight spaces over symplectic oscillator Lie algebras, establishing an equivalence with modules over symplectic Lie algebras when a certain parameter is non-zero.
Contribution
It provides a classification of simple weight modules for symplectic oscillator Lie algebras and links their category to that of symplectic Lie algebras via an equivalence.
Findings
Equivalence between categories of modules when z β 0
Classification of simple weight modules with finite-dimensional weight spaces
Use of localization and highest weight techniques
Abstract
The rank symplectic oscillator Lie algebra is the semidirect product of the symplectic Lie algebra and the Heisenberg Lie algebra . In this paper, we study weight modules with finite dimensional weight spaces over . When , it is shown that there is an equivalence between the full subcategory of the BGG category for and the BGG category for . Then using the technique of localization and the structure of generalized highest weight modules, we also give the classification of simple weight modules over with finite-dimensional weight spaces.
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TopicsAdvanced Algebra and Geometry Β· Algebraic structures and combinatorial models Β· Advanced Topics in Algebra
The category of weight modules for symplectic oscillator Lie algebras
Genqiang Liu
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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Kaiming Zhao
Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3C5, and College of Mathematics and Information Science, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050016, Hebei, China
Abstract.
The rank symplectic oscillator Lie algebra is the semidirect product of the symplectic Lie algebra and the Heisenberg Lie algebra . In this paper, we study weight modules with finite dimensional weight spaces over . When , it is shown that there is an equivalence between the full subcategory of the BGG category for and the BGG category for . Then using the technique of localization and the structure of generalized highest weight modules, we also give the classification of simple weight modules over with finite-dimensional weight spaces.
Key words and phrases:
symplectic oscillator Lie algebra, symplectic Lie algebra, Heisenberg Lie algebra, generalized highest weight module, BGG category, Harish-Chandra module
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
17B10, 17B81, 22E60
1. Introduction
Many important Lie algebras in mathematical physics are finite dimensional but not semi-simple, such as SchrΓΆdinger algebras [8], conformal Galilei algebras [17, 22], symplectic oscillator Lie algebras [3, 21], Euclidean algebras [20] and so on. Unlike finite dimensional semi-simple Lie algebras, the representation theory of those Lie algebras is still not well developed [19, 25]. In this paper we will establish the representation theory for symplectic oscillator Lie algebras.
The rank symplectic oscillator Lie algebra is the the semidirect product of the symplectic Lie algebra and the Heisenberg Lie algebra . This algebra is also called Jacobi Lie algebra in the literature, see [3, 2]. The universal enveloping algebra of is an infinitesimal Hecke algebra, see [13]. In mathematics, the Jacobi group is the semidirect product of the symplectic group and the Heisenberg group [3]. The Jacobi group is an important object in connection with quantum mechanics, geometric quantization, optics. The Jacobi groups were used to describe the βsqueezed coherent statesβ of quantum optics [1]. In Number Theory, automorphic forms on the Jacobi group are called Jacobi forms which has close relationship with the modular forms, see [3, 12].
In this paper, we study the BGG category for and give the classification of simple Harish-Chandra modules for .
A classification of simple Harish-Chandra modules over the following Lie algebras have been obtained, the Virasoro algebra [24], finite dimensional simple Lie algebras [14, 25], conformal Galilei algebras [22], the twisted Heisenberg Virasoro algebra [23], and affine Kac-Moody algebras [16, 10] (the zero central charge case was claimed in [10]).
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2 we provide the related definitions and notations.
In Section 3 we first we establish an isomorphism from to the associative algebra for (Proposition 3), and show that any module in with is completely reducible over (Lemma 5). Then we prove that the full subcategory of for with nonzero is equivalent to the BGG category for (Theorem 7).
The classification of all simple weight modules with finite dimensional weight spaces for is obtained in Section 4. Theorem 14 gave all such -modules with acts trivially, which are actually simple parabolically induced -modules and simple cuspidal -modules (See [25]). Theorem 15 gave all such -modules with acts non-trivially, which consists of three classes: cuspidal -modules in (a), parabolically induced -modules in (b), and a third class described in (c). We can see that the third class in Theorem 15 (c) does not appear for finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras. The representation theory of polynomial differential operator algebras, technique of localization and the structure of parabolically induced modules are widely used in our proofs.
Throughout this paper, we denote by , , , and the sets of all integers, nonnegative integers, positive integers, complex numbers, and nonzero complex numbers, respectively. For any Lie algebra , we denote its universal enveloping algebra by .
2. Definitions and notations
2.1. The symplectic oscillator Lie algebra
We know that the symplectic Lie algebra has the natural representation on by left matrix multiplication. Let be the standard basis of . The Heisenberg Lie algebra is the Lie algebra with Lie bracket given by
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Recall that the symplectic oscillator algebra is the the semidirect product Lie algebra
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Explicitly, the semidirect relations are
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for all . When , is the SchrΓΆdinger algebra studied in [8]. The representations of were studied in [9, 8, 11].
The universal enveloping algebra of the Jacobi Lie algebra is an infinitesimal Hecke algebra, see Example 4.11 in [13].
2.2. Root space decomposition of
Recall that is the Lie subalgebra of consisting of all -matrices satisfying where
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Equivalently, consists of all -matrices with block form
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such that , . Let denote the matrix unit whose -entry is and [math] elsewhere. Then is the standard Cartan subalgebra of and
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is a Cartan subalgebra of . Let be such that and . The root system of is precisely
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where is the root system of . The positive root system is
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We list root vectors in as follows. The indices are integers between and , with when we encounter .
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Then we obtain a basis of as follows
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Set
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Then the decomposition
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is a triangular decomposition of which tells us that
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The Lie subalgebra is a Borel subalgebra of .
2.3. Weight modules
A -module is called a weight module if acts diagonally on , i.e.
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where Denote
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A weight module is called a Harish-Chandra module if all its weight spaces are finite dimensional. For a weight module , a weight vector is called a highest weight vector if . A module is called a highest weight module if it is generated by a highest weight vector. A module is called to be uniformly bounded if the dimensions of all weight spaces are bounded by a fixed integer.
2.4. Verma modules
For and denote by the one-dimensional -module with the generator and the action given by
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The Verma module is defined, as usual, as follows:
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For convenience, we also denote of simply by . Let be the unique maximal proper submodule of . The quotient module is the unique simple quotient module of . Similarly, we have the modules and for .
3. BGG category
In this section, we study the BGG category for .
3.1. The BGG category
Definition 1**.**
The BGG category for is the full subcategory of (the category of all left -modules) whose objects are the modules satisfying the following three conditions.
- a
* is a finitely generated -module.* 2. b
* is a weight module.* 3. c
* is locally -finite, i.e., for each , the subspace is finite dimensional.*
Similarly, we have the BGG category for .
For information on the BGG category for semisimple Lie algebras, one can see [4, 19]. By the standard arguments, we can prove that the category has the following property.
Lemma 2**.**
Let be any object in .
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The module has a finite filtration
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with each factor for being a highest weight module. 2. 2
Each weight space of is finite dimensional. 3. 3
Any simple object in is isomorphic to some for .
So highest weight modules are the basic elements of the category .
Next we will introduce the Shale-Weil representation for , which is important for our later arguments on the category .
3.2. Shale-Weil representation
For , denote by the algebra of polynomial differential operators of , called the Weyl algebra of rank . Namely, is the associative algebra over generated by -indeterminates , subject to the relations
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A -module is a weight module if all are semisimple on . For a weight module , a weight vector is called a highest weight vector if . A -module is called a highest weight module if it is generated by a highest weight vector.
Proposition 3**.**
For any nonzero scalar , we have the associative algebra isomorphism defined by
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where .
Proof.
We can directly verify that the linear map defined by
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for , is a Lie algebra homomorphism. (Note that the above embedding for is similar to [6]). Using PBW Theorem we have the surjective associative algebra homomorphism defined by extending .
It is clear that where the right-hand side is just considered as a vector space tensor product, not tensor product of the two associative algebras.
We have the algebra homomorphism defined by
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where . Note that is injective. We also have the algebra isomorphism defined by
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We can eaily see that is a surjective algebra homomorphism, and
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where the right-hand side is just considered as a vector space tensor product. Then the linear map (not considered as algebra homomorphism)
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is a vector space isomorphism. Therefore is an algebra isomorphism. The proof is complete. β
Note that the restriction of is an algebra isomorphism for . Later in this paper will identify these two associative algebras.
For any -module , -module , via the homomorphism , can be viewed as a -module which is denoted by . In particular, the simple -module
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becomes a -module through , denoted by , which is isomorphic to the simple highest weight -module . This module is called the Shale-Weil module over (see [25]).
3.3. The structure of highest weight modules over
Proposition 4**.**
Let .
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If , then . 2. b
If , then we have that
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where . Consequently, is simple if and only if is simple.
Proof.
(a) In we have
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and
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yielding that
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which is a proper submodule of . So , i.e, in , for any . By the fact that is an ideal of and the simplicity of , we have .
(b) Let be a highest weight vector of . It is not hard to see that is a highest weight -module with highest weight . Next we prove that
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Take with
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Using a PBW basis, we can write
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where . From (4) and Proposition 3, by induction on we deduce that for all . Thus , yielding that .
Since is a simple -module, from the definition of and Proposition 3 we see that it is a simple -module. Thus the second isomorphism in (b) follows. β
3.4. The characterizations of
We denote by the full subcategory of consisting of all modules such that acts on as a scalar .
Lemma 5**.**
Let with . Let be a nonzero weight vector in . Then , with for each .
Proof.
Since , we can consider that which is still a weight module with respect to . Since has finite dimensional weight spaces, we see that
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Note that as vectors spaces
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Thus the -module has finite composition length . We will prove the statement by induction on .
If , then is a simple highest weight module, i.e., . Let be a maximal -submodule of . By the induction hypothesis, , with for each , and there is an epimorphism such that . Since is a highest weight module over , we take a highest weight vector with being a weight vector. Then for any .
Claim: There exists such that for any .
If , we choose the smallest integer such that . From
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we have that
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Note that . By repeating the above arguments, we can have such that for any . The claim follows.
Then . By the simplicity of , we see that . Then the proof is complete. β
Proposition 6**.**
Let . For any , there is an such that .
Proof.
Consider as a -module via the isomorphism in Proposition 3 where actually . By Lemma 5, we know that is a direct sum of irreducible highest weight -modules all isomorphic.
Let be the subspace of consisting all highest weight vectors over . We see that . On the other hand we have . Thus going back to the -module we see that .β
Theorem 7**.**
If , then the functor
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is an equivalence of the two categories.
Proof.
Denote . Note that the automorphisms of simple -modue is . From Proposition 5, we see that the homomorphism
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is isomorphism, for any modules . Again from Proposition 6, is an equivalence of the two categories. β
Remark: When , the Verma module has infinite composition length. Then subcategory has more complicated structure. For , the discussion of the category can be referred to [11]. Some properties of the category over a deformation of the symplectic oscillator algebra were given in [18].
4. Classification of simple Harish-Chandra -modules
Before giving the classification of simple Harish-Chandra modules over , we will first study generalized highest weight modules.
4.1. Generalized highest weight modules
Denote
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Then we have a different triangular decomposition
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Let be a simple -module with and for any , where . Note that . So is actually a simple -module. The induced -module
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is called a generalized Verma module over . We denote its unique irreducible quotient module by . By the analogous construction, we have the -modules and , for any simple -module .
Similar to Proposition 4, we have the next result.
Proposition 8**.**
- a
If , then . 2. b
If , then we have that
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and
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Proof.
(a) The proof is similar to that for Proposition 4 (a). We omit the details.
(b) It is not hard to see that is a generalized highest weight -module. Next we prove that
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It is enough to show that, for any linearly independent () and with
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we can deduce that for all . Using a PBW basis, we can write
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where . From (5) and Proposition 3, by induction on we deduce that for all . Thus all , yielding that is a generalized Verma module over , i.e.,
Since is a simple -module, from the definition of and Proposition 3 we see that it is a simple -module. Thus the second isomorphism in (b) follows. β
By Lemma 3.3 in [7], we have the following Lemma.
Lemma 9**.**
Let be a weight -module with all finite dimensional weight spaces, . The following two conditions are equivalent.
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For each , the space is zero for all but finitely many . 2. b
The element acts locally nilpotently on .
Lemma 10**.**
[7]** If is a simple weight -module, then the action of on is injective or locally nilpotent, for any .
Next, we will introduce a lemma which will be used in studying the structure of generalized highest modules.
Lemma 11**.**
Let be any simple Harish-Chandra -module, on which acts as some .
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If acts locally nilpotently on , then so does . If , then the converse is also true. 2. b
If and acts locally nilpotently on with , then also acts locally nilpotently on .
Proof.
(a) If acts locally nilpotently on , then by Lemma 9, for each , the space is zero for all but finitely many . Thus acts locally nilpotently on .
Conversely, if , acts nilpotently on but acts injectively on , then for each , the space for any . By the nilpotence of , we have an infinite sequence of positive integers and nonzero such that for each . Using that , we can see that is a linearly independent infinite subset of , contradicting the fact that .
(b) Suppose that acts injectively on .
We claim that both and acts nilpotently on . If acts injectively on , then from and Lemma 9, we see that acts injectively on , contradicting the nilpotence of . If acts injectively on , then from and Lemma 9, we see that acts injectively on , contradicting the nilpotence of .
Let be the subalgebra generated by , which is isomorphic to . The nilpotence of and tells us that is a sum of finite dimensional irreducible -modules. So the weight set of is invariant under the action of the reflection . Since acts injectively on , for each , the space for any . Then
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for any . This implies that acts injectively on , a contradiction. So (b) follows. β
Proposition 12**.**
Let be a simple weight -module with all finite dimensional weight spaces. If acts locally nilpotently on for any , then for some simple Harish-Chandra -module .
Proof.
By Lemma 11, act locally nilpotently on for any . Then we can find a weight vector which is annihilated by . Let which has to be a simple -module. Consequently, . Since is a Harish-Chandra -module, has to be a Harish-Chandra -module. β
4.2. Simple Harish-Chandra modules
In this subsection, we will give the classification of simple weight -modules with finite dimensional weight spaces. Our method is quite different from those in [25, 7] where they broke the whole system into different subsets according to actionsβ nilpotency of root vectors. We need only to use all the root vectors with respect to long roots as you will see next.
For any simple Harish-Chandra -module , we set
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Then .
Consider the multiplicative subset
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which is an Ore subset of , and hence we have the corresponding Ore localization , see [5, 25]. Assume that .
For , there is an isomorphism of such that
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for any . In particular, we can check that
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for any .
For a -module , it can be twisted by to be a new -module . As vector spaces . For , , . The modules and are said to be equivalent.
Lemma 13**.**
Let be a simple Harish-Chandra -module. If both and act on injectively, then both act on bijectively.
Proof.
Consider the two injective linear maps and . Since and , we see that , and both and act on bijectively. β
Theorem 14**.**
Let be a simple Harish-Chandra -module, on which acts as zero. Then , i.e., is a simple Harish-Chandra -module.
Proof.
We can now consider as a module over . By the structure of the Weyl group of , there is an inner automorphism of such that
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and
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Since is an inner automorphism, we can extend to be an automorphism of such that . The module can be twisted by to be a new -module . Then if and only if . For ,
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For convenience, we can assume that
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Let be the subalgebra of generated by
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which is isomorphic to .
If , let . Otherwise set
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Since act locally nilpotent on and for any , the space is nonzero. Note that is a uniformly bounded -module. Then is a uniformly bounded -module. Choose a weight vector which is a common eigenvalue of for any . Assume that . Let . Take so that . Then by the formula (7), we see that for any . Now consider the -module . We can check that
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is a nonzero -submodule of . Being uniformly bounded, has a simple -submodule . By (a) in Lemma 11, acts locally nilpotent on for any . Then by Proposition 12, is a simple generalized highest weight -module. By Proposition 8 (a), we deduce that
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By the formula (6), we see that
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Consequently , and hence acts locally nilpotent on for any . Similarly, we can prove acts locally nilpotent on for any . Then
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is nonzero, which is a -submodule of . The simplicity of tells us that , i.e., . β
It is known (see [15]) that any irreducible weight module over the Weyl algebra is isomorphic to some irreducible subquotient of the module
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for some where . Since for any , we always assume that if . Set
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Assume that . Let
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We can see that is a simple -module.
For any simple Harish-Chandra -module , we have defined the set
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Theorem 15**.**
Let be a simple Harish-Chandra -module with a nonzero central charge, say .
- a
If , then is equivalent to for some finite dimensional simple -module and with . 2. b
If , then there is a simple Harish-Chandra -module such that is equivalent (under an inner automorphism of ) to the generalized highest weight module defined in subsection 4.1. 3. c
If is a nonempty proper subset of , then there is a simple Harish-Chandra -module and such that is equivalent (under an inner automorphism of ) to , where .
Proof.
For each , either or acts injectively on . Otherwise since there is no nontrivial finite-dimensional -module, which contradicts our assumption. So .
(a) By Lemma 11, both and act injectively on . Let be a nonzero weight vector which is a common eigenvector of for all . Then by the classification of simple weight modules over the Weyl algebra (see [15]), there is an with such that . Note that is a -module via the map . By the isomorphism in Proposition 3 and the dimension finiteness of weight spaces, we must have for some finite dimensional simple -module .
(b) Since , after twisting by an inner automorphism, we can assume that , that is, acts locally nilpotently on for any . By Proposition 12, there is a simple Harish-Chandra -module such that is equivalent to the generalized highest weight module .
(c) Suppose that . After twisting by an inner automorphism (similar arguments to those in the proof of Proposition 14), we can assume that
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Here we have replaced our old with an equivalent module.
Choose a nonzero weight vector such that for any . We can further choose so that it is a common eigenvector of for all . Then we can see that there is an such that with for .
Using the isomorphism in Proposition 3, there is a simple -module such that is equivalent to . Note that
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Since all the weight spaces of are finite dimensional, there is a weight of such that for any . This implies that there are nonzero vectors in which are annihilated by . Therefore is isomorphic to the generalized highest weight module . See Proposition 12. β
So far we have obtained the classification for all simple Harish-Chandra modules over the symplectic oscillator Lie algebra for all . Theorem 14 gave all such -modules with acts trivially, which are actually simple parabolically induced -modules and simple cuspidal -modules (See [25]). Theorem 15 gave all such -modules with acts non-trivially, which consists of three classes: cuspidal -modules in (a), parabolically induced -modules in (b), and a third class described in (c). We can see that the third class in Theorem 15 (c) does not appear for finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras.
**Acknowledgements. ** This research is partially supported by NSFC (11771122, 11871190) and NSERC (311907-2015).
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