The parabolic Euler-character conjecture for ortho-symplectic Lie superalgebras

Let g=spo(2n2m+1)\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{spo}(2n|2m+1), and let p\mathfrak{p} be the maximal parabolic subalgebra obtained by removing the simple root ϵm\epsilon_m, with Levi subalgebra l=gl(nm)\mathfrak{l}=\mathfrak{gl}(n|m). For a partition λ\lambda satisfying λn+1m\lambda_{n+1}\leq m, write λ\lambda^\sharp for the corresponding highest weight, let L0(λ)L^0(\lambda^\sharp) be the associated simple l\mathfrak{l}-module, and let EpE^\mathfrak{p} denote the parabolic Euler-character construction. Parabolic Euler-character conjecture. The modules Ep(L0(λ))E^\mathfrak{p}(L^0(\lambda^\sharp)), as λ\lambda ranges over all such partitions, form a basis for the complexified Grothendieck group of finite-dimensional g\mathfrak{g}-modules. Moreover, when λ\lambda is “not close” to the zero weight, the composition factors of Ep(L0(λ))E^\mathfrak{p}(L^0(\lambda^\sharp)) are the same as those of the Kac module K(λ)K(\lambda^\sharp) for gl(nm)\mathfrak{gl}(n|m). The first assertion is a basis statement for the finite-dimensional representation theory of spo(2n2m+1)\mathfrak{spo}(2n|2m+1), while the second predicts agreement with the corresponding Kac-module composition factors away from weights near zero; the source does not make “not close” precise or provide a resolution.

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Shun-Jen Cheng and Weiqiang Wang, “Remarks on modules of the ortho-symplectic Lie superalgebras”, arXiv:0804.2506 (2008).

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