Whittaker category for the Lie algebra of polynomial vector fields

TL;DR

This paper classifies and relates Whittaker modules for the Lie algebra of polynomial vector fields to modules over a subalgebra, providing a structural understanding and classification of simple modules.

Contribution

It establishes an equivalence between categories of Whittaker modules and finite dimensional modules over a specific Lie subalgebra, and classifies simple non-singular Whittaker modules.

Findings

Category equivalence with modules over $L_n$

Classification of simple non-singular Whittaker modules

Analogue of Skryabin's equivalence for non-singular blocks

Abstract

For any positive integer $n$, let $A_n=\mathbb{C}[t_1,\dots,t_n]$, $W_n=\text{Der}(A_n)$ and $\Delta_n=\text{Span}\{\frac{\partial}{\partial{t_1}},\dots,\frac{\partial}{\partial{t_n}}\}$. Then $(W_n, \Delta_n)$ is a Whittaker pair. A $W_n$-module $M$ on which $\Delta_n$ operates locally finite is called a Whittaker module. We show that each block $\Omega_{\mathbf{a}}^{\widetilde{W}}$ of the category of $(A_n,W_n)$-Whittaker modules with finite dimensional Whittaker vector spaces is equivalent to the category of finite dimensional modules over $L_n$, where $L_n$ is the Lie subalgebra of $W_n$ consisting of vector fields vanishing at the origin. As a corollary, we classify all simple non-singular Whittaker $W_n$-modules with finite dimensional Whittaker vector spaces using $\mathfrak{gl}_n$-modules. We also obtain an analogue of Skryabin's equivalence for the non-singular block $\Omega_{\mathbf{a}}^W$.