Normal ordering divided powers along the type-G₂ root string #
Let x, y, z, w, v, and s belong to an associative algebra over ℚ, with
x * y = y * x + z, x * z = z * x + 2 • w, x * w = w * x + 3 • v, w * z = z * w + 3 • s,
v and s commuting with x, y commuting with z, w commuting with v, and s commuting
with z, w, and v. This is the situation of the two simple roots of a root system of type G₂,
α short and β long: with x and y the Chevalley root vectors of α and β, the divided
powers (ad x)ᵏ y / k! of the inner derivation are the root vectors of α + β, 2α + β, and
3α + β up to sign, and s is the root vector of 3α + 2β. Every one of the four brackets above
is integral.
The resulting straightening rule is again coefficient-one,
x⁽ᵐ⁾ y⁽ⁿ⁾ = ∑ b + c + d + 2e ≤ n, b + 2c + 3d + 3e ≤ m,
y⁽ⁿ⁻ᵇ⁻ᶜ⁻ᵈ⁻²ᵉ⁾ z⁽ᵇ⁾ w⁽ᶜ⁾ v⁽ᵈ⁾ s⁽ᵉ⁾ x⁽ᵐ⁻ᵇ⁻²ᶜ⁻³ᵈ⁻³ᵉ⁾,
so it holds in a Kostant integral form and, after base change, over a ring of any characteristic.
The two exponents attached to a summand are the pair (i, j) of the root i α + j β it comes from:
z contributes (1, 1), w contributes (2, 1), v contributes (3, 1), and s contributes
(3, 2). That last root is what makes the type-G₂ case genuinely longer than the chain treated in
TauCeti.RingTheory.DividedPowers.RootString.Basic: 3α + 2β is not on the α-string through β,
and it enters through the bracket w * z = z * w + 3 • s rather than through ad x.
For the other nontrivial pair α, α + β, the root 3α + 2β arises instead from
⁅e_(2α + β), e_(α + β)⁆. Its divided-power straightening rule is
TauCeti.Associative.dividedPower_mul_dividedPower_of_g2_short_pair in
TauCeti.RingTheory.DividedPowers.RootString.G2.ShortPair.
The proof feeds TauCeti.Associative.dividedPower_mul_of_ad_dividedPower_series the sequence
d k = ∑ b + 2c + 3d + 3e = k, y⁽ⁿ⁻ᵇ⁻ᶜ⁻ᵈ⁻²ᵉ⁾ z⁽ᵇ⁾ w⁽ᶜ⁾ v⁽ᵈ⁾ s⁽ᵉ⁾,
which is the k-th divided power of the inner derivation ad x applied to y⁽ⁿ⁾. Verifying its
defining recurrence is the whole content: moving x across one normal-ordered monomial lengthens
the z-power with coefficient b + 1, the w-power with coefficient 2 (c + 1), the v-power
with coefficient 3 (d + 1), or the s-power with coefficient 3 (e + 1), and the four
contributions to a summand of d (k + 1) add up to b + 2c + 3d + 3e = k + 1.
Main results #
TauCeti.Associative.mul_dividedPower_of_commutator_eq_two_nsmul: moving one element across a divided power when the commutator itself has a central second commutator.TauCeti.Associative.commutator_eq_three_nsmul_of_commute: the bracketw * z = z * w + 3 • sis forced by the other type-G₂brackets, so a consumer holding a Chevalley basis need not supply it separately.TauCeti.Associative.dividedPower_mul_dividedPower_of_commutator_eq_three_nsmul: the coefficient-one straightening rule for the type-G₂root string.
References #
- R. W. Carter, Simple Groups of Lie Type, §4.2 and Theorem 5.2.2.
- J. E. Humphreys, Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, §§25--26.
- J. C. Jantzen, Representations of Algebraic Groups, II.1.
Moving one element across a power whose commutator is not central #
Moving one element across a divided power with a non-central commutator. Suppose
x * z = z * x + a and a * z = z * a + 2 • d, with d commuting with z. Then
x z⁽ᵇ⁾ = z⁽ᵇ⁾ x + z⁽ᵇ⁻¹⁾ a + z⁽ᵇ⁻²⁾ d,
both released terms being present exactly when their exponent is defined. Every coefficient is 1:
the factor 2 in the second hypothesis is exactly what the divided powers absorb, which is why
d rather than a * z - z * a is the integral datum. Taking d = 0 recovers
mul_dividedPower_of_commutator_eq'.
The bracket at the root 3α + 2β #
The fifth bracket is forced. In the type-G₂ configuration the bracket of the root vectors
of α + β and 2α + β is not an independent datum: it is three times the root vector of 3α + 2β
that already appears as ⁅y, v⁆. The proof is the Jacobi identity applied to ⁅x, ⁅y, w⁆⁆ = 0.
A consumer holding a Chevalley basis therefore supplies the four brackets along the α-string
together with ⁅e_β, e_{3α+β}⁆, and reads off the hypothesis
w * z = z * w + 3 • s of the straightening rule below.
Moving one element across a single normal-ordered monomial #
The divided-power series of the inner derivation #
Reindexing the four exponent shifts #
Each of the four ways to advance the series moves the index p of weighted degree k to an
index of weighted degree k + 1 by a fixed shift of the exponents. All four are instances of
one reindexing lemma, which leaves each of them only the arithmetic of its own shift.
The straightening rule #
The quadruples of exponents in the straightening rule for the type-G₂ root string, one
coordinate for each of the roots α + β, 2α + β, 3α + β, and 3α + 2β.
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Instances For
Coefficient-one normal ordering along the type-G₂ root string. Suppose
x * y = y * x + z, x * z = z * x + 2 • w, x * w = w * x + 3 • v, w * z = z * w + 3 • s,
that v and s commute with x, that y commutes with z, that w commutes with v, and that
s commutes with z, w, and v. Then
x⁽ᵐ⁾ y⁽ⁿ⁾ = ∑ b + c + d + 2e ≤ n, b + 2c + 3d + 3e ≤ m,
y⁽ⁿ⁻ᵇ⁻ᶜ⁻ᵈ⁻²ᵉ⁾ z⁽ᵇ⁾ w⁽ᶜ⁾ v⁽ᵈ⁾ s⁽ᵉ⁾ x⁽ᵐ⁻ᵇ⁻²ᶜ⁻³ᵈ⁻³ᵉ⁾.
Every coefficient in the divided-power basis is 1, so the identity survives restriction to a
Kostant integral lattice and base change to a ring of arbitrary characteristic. Taking v = 0 and
s = 0 and discarding the terms with d ≠ 0 or e ≠ 0 recovers the chain rule
dividedPower_mul_dividedPower_of_commutator_eq_two_nsmul.