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The Category 𝒪

Arun Ram
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010 Australia
aram@unimelb.edu.au

and

Department of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI 53706 USA
ram@math.wisc.edu

Last updates: 5 February 2010

The category 𝒪

Let ℱ = ⨁ i ∈ ℤ ℱ i be a ℤ -graded algebra such that

  1. dim ℱ i ≤ ∞ ,
  2. ℱ 0 is reductive, and
  3. ℱ is semisimple as a ℱ 0 -module (under adjoint action).

The category 𝒪 for ℱ = ⨁ i ∈ ℤ ℱ i is the category of ℤ -graded ℱ -modules M = ⨁ i ∈ ℤ M i such that

  1. M is semisimple as a ℱ 0 -module, and
  2. if m ∈ M then dim U ≥ 0 m < ∞ ,
where U ≥ 0 = U ℱ ≥ 0 with ℱ ≥ 0 = ⨁ i ∈ ℤ ≥ 0 ℱ i .

References [PLACEHOLDER]

[BG] A. Braverman and D. Gaitsgory, Crystals via the affine Grassmanian, Duke Math. J. 107 no. 3, (2001), 561-575; arXiv:math/9909077v2, MR1828302 (2002e:20083)

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