Gelfand–Tsetlin modules in the Coulomb context
Webster, Ben1
1 Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
Annals of Representation Theory, Volume 1 (2024) no. 3, pp. 393-437.

This paper gives a new perspective on the theory of principal Galois orders, as developed by Futorny, Ovsienko, Hartwig, and others. Every principal Galois order can be written as eFe for any idempotent e in an algebra F, which we call a flag Galois order; and in most important cases we can assume that these algebras are Morita equivalent. These algebras have the property that the completed algebra controlling the fiber over a maximal ideal has the same form as a subalgebra in a skew group ring, which gives a new perspective to a number of results about these algebras.

We also discuss how this approach relates to the study of Coulomb branches in the sense of Braverman–Finkelberg–Nakajima, which are particularly beautiful examples of principal Galois orders. These include most of the interesting examples of principal Galois orders, such as U(𝔤𝔩 n ). In this case, all the objects discussed have a geometric interpretation, which endows the category of Gelfand–Tsetlin modules with a graded lift and allows us to interpret the classes of simple Gelfand–Tsetlin modules in terms of dual canonical bases for the Grothendieck group. In particular, we classify the Gelfand–Tsetlin modules over U(𝔤𝔩 n ) and relate their characters to a generalization of Leclerc’s shuffle expansion for dual canonical basis vectors.

Finally, as an application, we disprove a conjecture of Mazorchuk, showing that the fiber over a maximal ideal of the Gelfand–Tsetlin subalgebra appearing in a finite-dimensional representation has an infinite-dimensional module in its fiber for n≥6.

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DOI: 10.5802/art.14
Classification: 14M15, 16G99, 17B10
Keywords: Gelfand–Tsetlin module, weight module, Coulomb branch
Webster, Ben 1

1 Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo & Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
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Webster, Ben. Gelfand–Tsetlin modules in the Coulomb context. Annals of Representation Theory, Volume 1 (2024) no. 3, pp. 393-437. doi : 10.5802/art.14. https://art.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/art.14/

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