Parabolic inductionThe Kac module is obtained from the bosonic representationas a so-called parabolic induction, a particular case of induced representation. The induced representation of
is denoted
and defined as follows:
I have to explain the meaning of these notations.
by definition consists of polynomials of the form
(finite sum) where
, with the identification
; this is the “universal enveloping algebra”
means that we consider the tensor product with identifications:
For example, ifthen
; and if
then
where
is the action of
on
as
belongs to a representation of
.
Notice that
is naturally a representation of
. The action of
on
is just a multiplication on the left: