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Existence and dimensionality of simple weight modules for quantum enveloping algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Zhiyong Shi
Zhiyong Shi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CanadaN6A 5B7
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We give sufficient and necessary conditions for simple modules of the quantum group or the quantum enveloping algebra Uq(g) to have weight space decompositions, where g is a semisimple Lie algebra and q is a nonzero complex number. We show that

(i) if q is a root of unity, any simple module of Uq(g) is finite dimensional, and hence is a weight module;

(ii) if q is generic, that is, not a root of unity, then there are simple modules of Uq(g) which do not have weight space decompositions.

Also the group of units of Uq(g) is found.

Type
Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , August 1993 , pp. 35 - 40
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1993

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