Relating Translation functor and Jacquet functor via Chan-Wong’s comparison functor
Abstract.
Kei Yuen Chan and Kayue Daniel Wong constructed a functor from the category of Harish-Chandra modules of to the category of modules over graded Hecke algebra of type A. This functor has several nice properties, such as compatible with parabolic inductions, and preserving standard and irreducible objects. Based on their results, we show this functor relates translation functor on the real side and Jacquet functor on the -adic side.
1. Preliminaries
Ciubotaru and Trapa [2] established functorial connections between the representation categories for some real and -adic groups. For the case of , they obtained nicer properties in [3]. Later, [4] considered the simpler case of , and matched more objects and structures defined in parallel on the real side and the -adic side. For example, their functors preserve parabolically induced modules, standard modules, irreducible modules, unitary modules and Dirac series.
This paper provides a new matching: the translation functor on the real side, and the Jacquet functor on the -adic side.
We will review some basic definitions in [4] from subsection 1.1 to 1.5, and then present our main theorem 1.3. Section 2 collects several results necessary for the subsequent proof. Section 3 provides the natural transformation claimed in the main theorem, and reduces the proof of isomorphism to objects easier to handle. Section 4 contains the most technical calculations. Section 5 discusses the dual version of theorem 1.3.
Acknowledgement
The author would like to thank Professor Bin Xu, Taiwang Deng and Qixian Zhao for patient guidance.
1.1. Translation
For a real Lie group , take a multiplicative functional over , and then there is a category consisting of Harish-Chandra modules over with generalized infinitesimal character . Fix a Cartan subalgebra of , the complex Lie algebra of , then determines uniquely a Weyl group orbit in according to Harish-Chandra isomorphism. Conversely, a linear functional determines a multiplicative functional over , and we abbretive by .
Chapter VII of [5] defines the translation functor for an integral weight . It is given by , where is a finite dimensional representation of with extreme weight , and is the projection to -primary subspace with respect to .
1.2. Jacquet functor
The graded Hecke algebra is generated by the polynomial ring and group algebra subject to the relations , and , where are adjacent swaps that form the Coxeter generators of . Denote the category of finite dimensional modules over by .
There is an embedding of algebra given by , . It image is commutative with . Then we may define the functor by taking the generalized -eigenspace with respect to , where is any complex number.
1.3. Representations of
Although has complex structure, we understand it as a real Lie group, and study its representations through -modules.
Denote the Lie algebra of by , and its complexfication by . Then we have the decomposition of real vector space , where denotes the action of on . However, it is not a decomposition as complex Lie algebra.
Take the embeddings of complex Lie algebra defined by
One may check gives an isomorphism of complex Lie algebra. We may denote the element by .
Under this coordinate, the image of natural embedding is given by , and the Cartan involution is given by . Take consisting of diagonal matrices, and then is a Cartan subalgebra, with compact part , split part .
The maximal compact subgroup of is . The diagonal subgroup decomposes into direct product of torus part and split part ; of course . The Lie algebra of coincides with fixed points of . The complexfications of Lie algebra of , are exactly and respectively.
A weight can be denoted by under coordinate , and under . These two coordinates are related by , . If is integral, can be lifted to a character of , and to a one dimensional representation of the Borel subgroup . Then take the function space where
is the modular character of , and acts by right translation. Denote it by , and call it principle series representation. It also has a -module version by taking -finite subspace. Its infinitesimal character is given by .
Fix a weight , and let denote the category of -finite -module of with generalized infinitesimal character (determined by) . It is an Abelian category, with Grothendieck group denoted by . This group has a basis given by , where is integral . Under the cordinate , , and . Since is integral, coincides with as a subgroup of . Denote it by , and then . According to theorem 2.1 of [4], the basis is in bijection to , which admits a set of representatives given by .
1.4. Representations of
There is a natural embedding . Hence we have the parabolic induction given by
Irreducible representations of are classified by multi-segements in . By a segement with , we mean the set . If , then this set is empty.
Irreducible representation of is given by the evaluation at . Then for the segement with length , there is a representation of given by . It has a unique irreducible quotient denoted by . This is a one dimensional representation, with acting by , and acting by . For , we define to be the trivial representation of .
Remark 1.4.1.
By the above discussion we know
where if .
For a multi-segement in , enumerate its segements by properly; see subsection 2.4 of [4] for detail. Then would have a unique irreducible qoutient, denoted by . Such representations exhaust all irreducible representations of . In other words, let denote the Grothendieck group of , and then it has a basis given by
Moreover, take the graded ring
with multiplication given by parabolic induction. It is a polynomial ring (over ), with indeterminates given by segements . We also denote by when regarding it as an element in the -group.
Lemma 1.1.
, . In other words, is a derivation over the graded ring .
1.5. The functor
Let denote the conjugate standard representation of . This means , and acts on it by left multiplication of the matrix .
For , as a vector space. To make it into an -module, [4] defines an action of on , which is commutative with the action of , and then would preserve -fixed point of . Here we present the conceret actions of on as follows: let denote the matrix with on the -entry, and on the other entries, and then
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According to [2, equation (2.3)], actions of are commutative with ; they are commutative with due to the commutativtity of and . According to [2, lemma 2.3.3], acts on by
Lemma 1.2.
Let be a weight with integral. If all , and , then is sent to under the functor , where . Otherwise, it is sent to .
This follows from [4, Lemma 6.1 and Theorem 6.4].
1.6. Main results
Theorem 1.3.
The following diagram is commutative:
where is the th standard unit vector. More precisely, there is a natural isomorphism .
One of main theorems in [4] is relating (generalized) Bernstein-Zelevinsky functors on the -adic side with tensoring functors on the real side. Our theorem 1.3 could be regarded as a refinement of theirs. We will explain furthur in the remark after lemma 3.1.
There is also a dual statement asserting a natural isomorphism between the following compositions:
Here, denotes the functor that takes the generalized -eigenspace with respect to , and regards it as an via the natural embedding , , . We will discuss it in section 5.
Lemma 1.4.
There is a filtration such that ,
Here we prove the -group version of theorem 1.3, which asserts commutativity of the following diagram of Abelian groups:
This simpler version will be useful for Corollary 3.4, and subsequently Theorem 1.3. It sufficies to prove commutativity for the basis of given by principle series . We may denote by . Take the index set . According to lemma 1.1 and lemma 1.2, we have the following in if :
where , and is obtained from by deleting its beginning. On the other hand, in the Grothendieck group of we have
according to lemma 1.4. Note that if , then
and otherwise is . Therefore, we have holds for such . The case when is trivial. We thus conclude the commutativity for -groups.
2. Parabolic induction over
Suppose is a Casselman-Wallach representation of , a parabolic subgroup of . Then we may define its parabolic induction by taking the space
where is the modular character of , and acts on it by right translation. Parabolic induction also has its -module version.
2.1. Mackey isomorphism
For any Harish-Chandra module of , there is a standard Mackey isomorphism sending to the function ; see for example [5, Theorem 2.103].
Then we may give
Proof of lemma 1.4. We have to establish a filtration over . Consider the standard flag on : , where consists of column vectors with first components non-zero only. It is also a filtration of -representation. Hence, would have a filtration given by
Since parabolic induction is exact, we know
where
as representation of . Consequently, , and lemma 1.4 follows. ∎
2.2. Frobenius reciporcity
There is a Frobenius reciporcity given by evaluatinng .
As a corollary, there is an isomorphism
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Note that as -representation,
where the -weight space is spanned by . For , define . Then we know has a basis given by
In particular, this space would be non-zero only when and , and in this case it has dimension . This is the proof for lemma 1.2 given in [4, subsection 5.2].
2.3. Details of compatibility with
[4, Section 5] proved is compatible with parabolic induction. More explicitly, for , , there is natural isomorphism , where , , and is the sum of components of . Here we review some details in its proof.
There is a natural embedding . Take to be the set of minimal representatives of .
Let be the standard basis of , and . Then for , there is spanned by vectors where
Take the parabolic subgroup consisting of matrices
Then , with . Denote , and acts on it via . Since is isomorphic to , we may denote by the subspace of sent to via this isomorphism .
Proposition 2.1.
As vector space, is the direct sum of . Moreover, as -modules, and sends to .
3. Natural transformation
Here we define a natural transformation , and discuss how to prove it to be an isomorphism.
3.1. Decompose into generalized eigenspaces
Denote the forgetful functor by . There is a natural isomorphism
On the level of objects, it is merely the decomposition into generalized eigenspaces of .
Consequently, there is a natural isomorphism of functors :
We will see later that if , then would be zero. Hence the right hand side of above isomorphism would be a finite sum.
3.2. Consistency of actions
Denote the category of -finite Harish-Chandra modules over by . There is a natural transformation of functors given by
Consequently, we have .
Lemma 3.1.
As functors , coincides with . More explictly, , the action of on coincides with that on .
Remark 3.2.1.
Proof. According to (1), the action of on is
and the action of on would be
Since by definition of the action of on , we know
Then the consistency of actions of follows easily.
The consistency of actions of follows either by direct computation like above, or the observation of [2, lemma 2.3.3] as pointed out in subsection 1.5. ∎
Now we obtain the natural transformations of functors
We have to prove
Proposition 3.2.
, is an isomorphism when , and zero otherwise.
3.3. On principle series
We claim that proposition 3.2 holds for each principle series . It sufficies to prove for , as the other can be easily incorporated into subsequent argument well.
We have given a filtration of in subsection 2.1, where , and .
Proposition 3.3.
Each is preserved by . Moreover, on acts by generalized eigenvalue .
This proposition will be proved in section 4. Based on it, we then have
Corollary 3.4.
For priciple series ,
as subspace, and thus -submodule of .
Proof. Denote by , and regard it as the -primary subspace of under . We have to prove is invariant under action of . According to [2, equation (2.3)], the endomorphism on given by
would be commutative with actions of , and hence the whole . Then this endomorphism would preserve the -primary subspace under . Following from the definition in (1), would preserve , and hence .
There is an induced filtration with . Then is exactly the -primary subspace. But is -primary, so is either , or isomorphic to . The latter case happens if and only if belongs to the same -orbit as . In particular, for , if , then is zero.
Due to Proposition 3.3, would preserve , and act on by generalized eignevalue . Combine it with the previous discussion on the filtration of , we know would act on it by the unique generalized eigenvalue . Then at least . Since we have verified they coincide in in subsection 1.6, we may conclude they are the same as subspaces of now. ∎
3.4. On irreducible objects
Proposition 3.5.
Suppose is an epimorphism, and proposition 3.2 holds for , then it also holds for .
Proof. For an epimorphism , there is a commutative diagram due to the naturality of :
The vertical arrows are surjective since both functors are exact. Hence if is zero or surjective, then so is .
Consequently, is zero if , and is at least surjective when . The injectivity in the second case would follow from the fact that is an injection given by composition:
∎
3.5. On finite length objects
One can deduce proposition 3.2 for finite-length module from naturality of and five-lemma easily.
In the meanwhile, all objects in is of finite length. According to [4, theorem 2.1], the irreducible objects in are finite (up to isomorphism). If an object has infinitely many subquotients, then it must have one irreducible object repreating infinitely many times as its subquotients. Then would have infinite dimensional -isotypic subspaces, which contradicts to the admissibility in the definition of Harish-Chandra module.
4. Generalized eigenvalues of
The starting point is . In this case is a one-dimensional representation of , and is a one-dimensional module over , with . We already know act by the scalar on , as pointed out in subsection 1.4.
4.1. Case
We need the result in subsection 2.3. Take , a representation of , and , a representation of , where , . Denote .
We know from proposition 2.1 a isomorphism of -modules
where is the preimage of under the isomorphism
and , with is spanned by .
Lemma 4.1.
The -module can be generated by .
Assume it for a meanwhile. Then we could deduce that acts on by scalar . Indeed, acts on the -module by this scalar. Then its act as so on the whole since is commutative with .
Proof of lemma 4.1. Recall the definitions in subsection 2.1 that . Then
would be sent to under the isomorphism
Then we prove is sent to as follows. We have the natural isomorphism of vector spaces
which fits into the following commutative diagram
of -modules. Apply (2) to furthur, we would obtain
The top isomorphisms of above two diagrams compose into exactly, so we know is sent to . Consequently, ccontains , and hence .
The conclusion follows by showing the latter space has dimension no less than the former one. According to the calculation in subsection 2.2, we have
It sufficies to show has at least copies of ; note that .
Consider the embedding , . It would pull back to . Then we may check easily that elements in has distinguished image in . Consequently,
According to proposition 2.1, the right hand side is a direct sum, so
Now the conclusion follows. ∎
Consequently, (3) holds in the case .
4.2. Case
Next, we verify (3) for the case by induction.
Note that becomes conjugate standard representation of via , so we may apply induction hypothesis to it. More precisely, denote the induced filtration on by , where , and then we know , sends it into
Now look at the following commutative diagram of -modules:
For any such that with , it would correspond to with
We already know sends it into
so in , the action of on would satisfy
For with
we know from -fixed property that , and then
Consequently,
Since
then
so
Moreover, one check easily by evaluating at that
It follows then (3):
holds for those special we chose.
We know from subsection 2.2 that is spanned by and , where
with , and . We have assumed , so has elements. Then there is permutes them to , and takes value at . This is what we have considered previously, so known that
Since is commutative with , we obtain (3) for :
Since gives rise to a basis for , we verified (3) completely.
5. A dual version
We now discuss the dual version of theorem 1.3, specifically the commutativity of following diagram:
It can be deduced from the following diagrams:
Here, each of the four is an equivalence of categories induced from Hermitian dual. The denotes the natural isomorphism in theorem 1.3, The two assert the compability between and Hermitian dual, as established in [4, Theorem 7.5]. To complete the picture, it remains to explain the compability of Hermitian dual with translation and Jacquet functor, which are given by the natural isomorphism and respectively.
5.1. On the real side
We follow the definition and notations in [4]. Note that the complex conjugate over is .
Then we may define the Hermitial dual of a Harish-Chandra module of . It is the space of -finite conjugate linear functionals over , which gives rise to a non-degenerate sesquilinear pairing , with structure of -module determined by
An alternative definition of the Hermitian dual, which can be found in [5, section VI.2], arises from the composition of contragredient functor and conjugation functor. It follows that the functor is exact, and naturally.
According to [1, equation (2.4.2)], the Hermitian dual of principle series is still a priciple series:
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Due to the exactness of Hermitian dual, we may imitate the argument presented in section 3 to conclude that Hermitian dual sends to and preserves .
The natural isomorphism would follows from the following diagram:
Note that the Hermitian dual of conjugate standard representation is given by , with acting by left multiplication of .
5.2. On the -adic side
We follow the definition and notations in [4]. There is a conjugate linear anti-involution ∗ over , determined by , where is the longest element in it.
Then we may define the Hermitian dual of an -module . It is the space of conjugate linear functionals from to , with action of determined by
In particular, there is a non-degenerate sesquilinear pairing such that .
One may combine [4, Theorem 7.5], lemma 1.2 and (4) to see , and
Here by we mean if . Furthermore, the following lemma is well-known, and can be verified by direct computation:
Lemma 5.1.
There is a natural isomorphism fitting into the following diagram of functors:
Informally speaking, the Hermitian dual of generalized -eigenspace with respecct to is naturally isomorphic to the generalized -eigenspace of Hermitian dual with respect to .
Proof. Two ways of embedding into are involved in this lemma. To be precise, denote the polynomial generators and group generators of by (instead of ) respectively, and let . The two embeddings of into are given by
Then we have:
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is given by restricting -module to -module via , and then taking generalized -eigenspace with respecct to ;
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is given by restricting -module to -module via , and then taking generalized -eigenspace with respecct to .
Let be an -module, and be its Hermitial dual. By definition, we have a non-degenerate sesquilinear pairing such that , . Restricting and to -modules via and respectively. We would like to define a non-degenerate sesquilinear pairing such that , , where the conjugate linear anti-involution ∗ over is induced from those ∗ over and naturally.
Once such a is defined, then by we obtain a non-degenerate sesquilinear pairing between generalized -eigenspace of and generalized -eigenspace of with respecct to . Moreover, by for we know such two subspaces becomes Hermitian dual of each other as -modules. This is exactly what we want.
Denote the longest element in by , and we may define
The verification of are left to reader. ∎
Remark 5.2.1.
Here we scketch another, perhaps easier proof. Let be an module. Its inner twist by is naturally isomorphic to ; here we define , and the intertwining operator can be given by . As a consequence, we may use another conjugate linear anti-involution ⋆ over for an alternative definition of Hermitian dual, which differs from ∗ by an inner twist, in order to simplify the verification of lemma 5.1.
Set , and one calculates that , . Suppose now we have a non-degenerate sesquilinear pairing such that , . Restricting and to -modules via and respectively, and we would get , automatically. Consequently, generalized eigenspaces of and with respect to are paired respectively under . Now the lemma follows.
This lemma provides the desired natural isomorphism .
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