Contravariant pairings between standard Whittaker modules and Verma modules

Constructing homomorphisms between Verma modules

We describe a practical method for constructing a nontrivial homomorphism between two Verma modules of an arbitrary semisimple Lie algebra. With some additions the method generalises to the affine case. A theorem of Verma, Bernstein-Gel’fand-Gel’fand gives a straightforward criterion for the existence of a nontrivial homomorphism between Verma modules. Moreover, the theorem states that such hom...

Semi–holonomic Verma Modules

Verma modules arise geometrically through the jets of homogeneous vector bundles. We consider in this article, the modules that arise from the semi-holonomic jets of a homogeneous vector bundle. We are particularly concerned with the case of a sphere under MMbius transformations. In this case there are immediate applications in the theory of conformally invariant diierential operators.

Generalized Verma Modules

Homomorphisms between Verma Modules in Characteristic P

Let g be a complex semisimple Lie algebra, with a Bore1 subalgebra b c g and Cartan subalgebra h c b. In classifying the finite dimensional representations of g, Cartan showed that any simple finite dimensional g-module has a generating element u, annihilated by n = [b, b], on which h acts by a linear form I E h*. Such an element is called a primitive vector (for the module). Harish-Chandra [9]...

Twisted Verma modules

Using principal series Harish-Chandra modules, local cohomology with support in Schubert cells and twisting functors we construct certain modules parametrized by the Weyl group and a highest weight in the subcategory O of the category of representations of a complex semisimple Lie algebra. These are in a sense modules between a Verma module and its dual. We prove that the three different approa...