Twisting functors and Gelfand–Tsetlin modules over semisimple Lie algebras

Abstract

We associate to an arbitrary positive root [Formula: see text] of a complex semisimple finite-dimensional Lie algebra [Formula: see text] a twisting endofunctor [Formula: see text] of the category of [Formula: see text]-modules. We apply this functor to generalized Verma modules in the category [Formula: see text] and construct a family of [Formula: see text]-Gelfand–Tsetlin modules with finite [Formula: see text]-multiplicities, where [Formula: see text] is a commutative [Formula: see text]-subalgebra of the universal enveloping algebra of [Formula: see text] generated by a Cartan subalgebra of [Formula: see text] and by the Casimir element of the [Formula: see text]-subalgebra corresponding to the root [Formula: see text]. This covers classical results of Andersen and Stroppel when [Formula: see text] is a simple root and previous results of the authors in the case when [Formula: see text] is a complex simple Lie algebra and [Formula: see text] is the maximal root of [Formula: see text]. The significance of constructed modules is that they are Gelfand–Tsetlin modules with respect to any commutative [Formula: see text]-subalgebra of the universal enveloping algebra of [Formula: see text] containing [Formula: see text]. Using the Beilinson–Bernstein correspondence we give a geometric realization of these modules together with their explicit description. We also identify a tensor subcategory of the category of [Formula: see text]-Gelfand–Tsetlin modules which contains constructed modules as well as the category [Formula: see text].