Characters of modular torsion free representations of classical lie algebras

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the characters of modular, irreducible rep-resentations of classical Lie algebras g of types Al-1 and Ci arising from a characteristic 0 construction of torsion free representations. By character, we refer to linear functionals on g identified with algebra homomorphisms from a distinguished central subalgebra O of the universal enveloping algebra of g. If Lie(G') = g, then for each character X standard representatives with respect to a fixed toral subalgebra are found in the (2-orbit containing the character X For many parameters, these characters are nilpotent. Furthermore, modular representations of type Al-1 and type Cl Lie algebras constructed by induction from these irreducible, torsion free representations are shown to admit characters in a family of both Richardson and non-Richardson nilpotent orbits. Through this explicit induction construction, irreducible representations of minimal p-power dimension under the Kac-Weisfeiler conjecture are realized