A Family of Irreducible Representations of the Witt Lie Algebra with Infinite-Dimensional Weight Spaces

Wiley - Tập 128 - Trang 153-176 - 2001
Charles H. Conley1, Christiane Martin2
1Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas, Denton, U.S.A.
2Laboratoire de Mathématique-Physique, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Tóm tắt

We define a 4-parameter family of generically irreducible and inequivalent representations of the Witt Lie algebra on which the infinitesimal rotation operator acts semisimply with infinite-dimensional eigenspaces. They are deformations of the (generically indecomposable) representations on spaces of polynomial differential operators between two spaces of tensor densities on S 1, which are constructed by composing each such differential operator with the action of a rotation by a fixed angle.

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