Regular extreme semisimple Lie algebras

2024/03/09 by Andrew Douglas, Joe Repka, Douglas, Andrew +1
Mathematics · #17B05 #17B10 #17B20 #17B22 #17B30 #Advanced Algebra and Geometry #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #FOS: Mathematics #Representation Theory (math.RT)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2403.17951

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Abstract

A subalgebra of a semisimple Lie algebra is wide if every simple module of the semisimple Lie algebra remains indecomposable when restricted to the subalgebra. A subalgebra is narrow if the restrictions of all non-trivial simple modules to the subalgebra have proper decompositions. A semisimple Lie algebra is regular extreme if any regular subalgebra of the semisimple Lie algebra is either narrow or wide. Douglas and Repka previously showed that the simple Lie algebras of type A_n are regular extreme. In this article, we show that, in fact, all simple Lie algebras are regular extreme. Finally, we show that no non-simple, semisimple Lie algebra is regular extreme.

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