A categorical approach to Weyl modules

Global and local Weyl Modules were introduced via generators and relations in the context of affine Lie algebras in a work by the first author and Pressley and were motivated by representations of quantum affine algebras. A more general case was considered by Feigin and Loktev by replacing the polynomial ring with the coordinate ring of an algebraic variety. We show that there is a natural definition of the local and global modules via homological properties. This characterization allows us to define the Weyl functor from the category of left modules of a commutative algebra to the category of modules for a simple Lie algebra. As an application we are able to understand the relationships of these functors to tensor products, generalizing previous results. Finally an analysis of the fundamental Weyl modules proves that the functors are not left exact in general, even for coordinate rings of affine varieties.Comment: 29 page

Demazure Filtrations of Tensor Product Modules and Character Formula

We study the structure of the finite-dimensional representations of $\mathfrak{sl}_2[t]$, the current Lie algebra type of $A_1$, which are obtained by taking tensor products of special Demazure modules. We show that these representations admit a Demazure flag and obtain a closed formula for the graded multiplicities of the level 2 Demazure modules in the filtration of the tensor product of two local Weyl modules for $\mathfrak{sl}_2[t]$. Furthermore, we derive an explicit expression for graded character of the tensor product of a local Weyl module with an irreducible $\mathfrak{sl}_2[t]$ module. In conjunction with the results of \cite{MR3210603}, our findings provide evidence for the conjecture in \cite{9} that the tensor product of Demazure modules of levels m and n respectively has a filtration by Demazure modules of level m + n

Local Weyl modules for equivariant map algebras with free abelian group actions

Suppose a finite group acts on a scheme X and a finite-dimensional Lie algebra g. The associated equivariant map algebra is the Lie algebra of equivariant regular maps from X to g. Examples include generalized current algebras and (twisted) multiloop algebras. Local Weyl modules play an important role in the theory of finite-dimensional representations of loop algebras and quantum affine algebras. In the current paper, we extend the definition of local Weyl modules (previously defined only for generalized current algebras and twisted loop algebras) to the setting of equivariant map algebras where g is semisimple, X is affine of finite type, and the group is abelian and acts freely on X. We do so by defining twisting and untwisting functors, which are isomorphisms between certain categories of representations of equivariant map algebras and their untwisted analogues. We also show that other properties of local Weyl modules (e.g. their characterization by homological properties and a tensor product property) extend to the more general setting considered in the current paper.Comment: 18 pages. v2: Minor correction