The Kostant integral form generated by root and Cartan vectors #
Let L be a Lie algebra over ℚ. Given families e : ι → L of root vectors and
h : κ → L of Cartan vectors, the associated Kostant integral form is the subring of
UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra ℚ L generated by
eᵢ⁽ⁿ⁾ = eᵢⁿ / n! and (hⱼ choose n)
for all indices and all natural numbers n. When e ranges over the Chevalley root vectors
x_α for every root α (positive and negative), and h ranges over the Cartan generators,
this is the usual Kostant ℤ-form. The definition in this file deliberately takes the two
distinguished families as data: the later Chevalley construction will supply them from a pinned
root datum, while the integral-form construction and its functoriality do not use the Chevalley
relations.
The divided powers are TauCeti.Associative.dividedPower. The Cartan generators are Mathlib's
Ring.choose, which evaluates the descending Pochhammer polynomial and divides by n!; no second
binomial-coefficient API is introduced here. The form is a Subring, rather than a ℚ-subalgebra,
because multiplication by arbitrary rational scalars would destroy the integral lattice. A local
ℚ≥0-module structure supplies the BinomialRing instance used to elaborate Ring.choose.
The Cartan--Cartan normal-ordering rule is TauCeti.ringChoose_mul_ringChoose: it expands a
product of two binomial coefficients in one Cartan vector as an integral linear combination of
binomial coefficients in that vector. Separately, because each coefficient in a designated Cartan
vector is a generator of the Kostant form, the subring they generate lies in that form.
The main results are a spanning theorem and exact functoriality. When e and h generate L as
a Lie algebra, the form spans the enveloping algebra over ℚ. A Lie homomorphism sends the form
generated by (e, h) onto the form generated by their images, so a Lie equivalence restricts to a
ring equivalence of the corresponding integral forms. These are respectively the fullness and
transport results needed by the Chevalley construction.
Main definitions and results #
TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.kostantForm: the generated integral form.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.kostantForm_le_iff: its universal property.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.subringClosure_range_ringChoose_le_kostantForm: the subring generated by the binomial coefficients in one Cartan vector lies in the Kostant form.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.ringChoose_ι_add_intCast_mem_kostantForm: integer translates of designated Cartan binomial coefficients belong to the Kostant form.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.ringChoose_ι_sub_intCast_mem_kostantForm: subtracting an integer from a designated Cartan argument also preserves membership in the Kostant form.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.span_kostantForm_eq_top: under a Lie-generation hypothesis, the form spans the enveloping algebra overℚ.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.dividedPower_mem_map_kostantForm: divided powers of mapped root vectors lie in the mapped Kostant form.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.map_kostantForm: exact functoriality under Lie maps.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.kostantFormMap: the restricted map of integral forms.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.kostantFormEquiv: transport under a Lie equivalence.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.kostantFormAut: transport under an invariant Lie automorphism.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.stabilizer: the subring stabilizing a givenℤ-submodule.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.kostantForm_le_stabilizer: generator criterion for the Kostant form to stabilize aℤ-submodule.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.kostantFormRep: the restricted representation of the Kostant integral form on an invariantℤ-submodule.TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.coe_kostantFormRep_apply: compatibility with the ambient algebra representation.
References #
- J. E. Humphreys, Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, §26.
- J. C. Jantzen, Representations of Algebraic Groups, II.1.
Generators and the integral form #
The divided powers of a specified family of root vectors in the universal enveloping algebra.
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- TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.kostantRootGenerators e = Set.range fun (p : ι × ℕ) => TauCeti.Associative.dividedPower p.2 ((UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.ι ℚ) (e p.1))
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The binomial coefficients of a specified family of Cartan vectors in the universal enveloping
algebra. Mathlib's Ring.choose x n is x * (x - 1) * ... * (x - n + 1) / n!.
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- TauCeti.UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.kostantCartanGenerators h = Set.range fun (p : κ × ℕ) => Ring.choose ((UniversalEnvelopingAlgebra.ι ℚ) (h p.1)) p.2
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The generators of the Kostant integral form attached to root vectors e and Cartan vectors
h: all divided powers of the former and all binomial coefficients of the latter.
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The Kostant integral form generated by specified root and Cartan vectors.
When e ranges over the Chevalley root vectors for every root, both positive and negative, and
h ranges over the Cartan generators, this is the usual ℤ-form inside the universal enveloping
algebra. It is represented as the smallest subring containing the divided powers of the supplied
root vectors and the binomial coefficients of the supplied Cartan vectors.
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A divided power of a designated root vector is one of the root-generator elements.
Membership in the root generators: the elements are exactly the divided powers of the designated root vectors.
A binomial coefficient of a designated Cartan vector is one of the Cartan-generator elements.
Membership in the Cartan generators: the elements are exactly the binomial coefficients of the designated Cartan vectors.
Membership in the full generator set: an element is a generator exactly when it is a divided power of a designated root vector or a binomial coefficient of a designated Cartan vector.
Every divided power of a designated root vector belongs to the Kostant form.
Every binomial coefficient of a designated Cartan vector belongs to the Kostant form.
The subring generated by the binomial coefficients in one designated Cartan vector is contained in the Kostant form.
Every integer translate of a designated Cartan binomial coefficient belongs to the Kostant integral form. This is the integrality statement for the shifted coefficients produced by Cartan/root normal ordering.
Subtracting an integer from the argument of a designated Cartan binomial coefficient keeps it in the Kostant integral form.
Each designated root vector itself belongs to the Kostant form.
Each designated Cartan vector itself belongs to the Kostant form.
The universal property of the Kostant form: it lies in a subring exactly when that subring contains every root divided power and every Cartan binomial coefficient.
Spanning the enveloping algebra #
The Kostant integral form spans the enveloping algebra. If the supplied root and Cartan
vectors generate L as a Lie algebra, every element of U(L) is a ℚ-linear combination of
elements of kostantForm e h; equivalently, ℚ ⊗ℤ U_ℤ → U(L) is onto.
This is the half of "U_ℤ is a ℤ-form of U(L)" that does not need the integral
Poincaré--Birkhoff--Witt theorem. The hypothesis is exactly what a Chevalley basis supplies, since
the root vectors and the Cartan generators generate a semisimple Lie algebra.
Functoriality #
Every divided power of the image of a designated root vector lies in the image of the Kostant
integral form: the root-vector generator eᵢ⁽ⁿ⁾ is carried there by any algebra map.
A Lie homomorphism maps the root generators to the root generators of the image family.
A Lie homomorphism maps the Cartan generators to the Cartan generators of the image family.
A Lie homomorphism maps the full Kostant generator set onto the generator set of the image families.
Exact functoriality of the Kostant form. The enveloping-algebra map induced by a Lie
homomorphism sends the integral form generated by (e, h) onto the integral form generated by
their pointwise images.
The restriction of an enveloping-algebra map to the corresponding Kostant integral forms.
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The restricted map agrees with the enveloping-algebra map on underlying elements.
The restricted map is onto the form generated by the image families. No surjectivity hypothesis on the ambient Lie homomorphism is needed, since the target families are its images.
A Lie equivalence restricts to a ring equivalence between the Kostant forms generated by a family and by its pointwise image.
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The restricted equivalence acts by the enveloping-algebra map induced by the original Lie equivalence.
The inverse restricted equivalence acts by the enveloping-algebra map induced by the inverse Lie equivalence.
A Lie self-equivalence that preserves a Kostant integral form restricts to a ring automorphism of that integral form.
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The restricted automorphism acts by the enveloping-algebra map induced by the original Lie equivalence.
The inverse restricted automorphism acts by the enveloping-algebra map induced by the inverse Lie equivalence.
Module representations and stabilized lattices #
The subring of elements in the universal enveloping algebra that stabilize a given
ℤ-submodule under an algebra representation.
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If every divided power of the designated root vectors and every binomial coefficient in the
designated Cartan vectors preserves N, then the entire Kostant form stabilizes N.
The action of an element of the Kostant form on an invariant ℤ-submodule.
The restricted representation of the Kostant integral form on an invariant ℤ-submodule N.
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The ambient action of the restricted Kostant representation agrees with the enveloping-algebra representation.