Parabolic induction

The Kac module is obtained from the bosonic representation as a so-called parabolic induction, a particular case of induced representation. The induced representation of is denoted and defined as follows:

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I have to explain the meaning of these notations.
  1. by definition consists of polynomials of the form (finite sum) where , with the identification ; this is the “universal enveloping algebra”

  2. means that we consider the tensor product with identifications:

        

    For example, if then ; and if then where is the action of on as belongs to a representation of .

  3. Notice that is naturally a representation of . The action of on is just a multiplication on the left: