Representation theory of mirabolic quantum $\mathfrak{sl}_n$

Daniele Rosso; Pallav Goyal

arxiv: 2510.07469 · v2 · submitted 2025-10-08 · 🧮 math.RT · math.QA· math.RA

Representation theory of mirabolic quantum mathfrak{sl}_n

Pallav Goyal , Daniele Rosso This is my paper

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keywords mirabolic quantum grouprepresentation theoryquantum sl_ncomodule algebraVerma modulessemisimplicityfinite dimensional representationsquantized enveloping algebra

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The mirabolic quantum group MU(n) is a comodule algebra over U_v(sl_n), which yields an explicit classification of all its finite-dimensional representations and proves the category is semisimple.

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The paper shows that the mirabolic quantum group MU(n) carries a natural structure of comodule algebra over the quantized enveloping algebra U_v(sl_n). This compatibility is used to construct Verma-type universal representations that generate all irreducible finite-dimensional modules. The same structure implies that every finite-dimensional representation decomposes completely into irreducibles. A reader would care because the result gives a full, explicit description of the representation theory of this quantum variant, paralleling the classical theory of sl_n but in the quantized setting.

Core claim

We show that MU(n) is a comodule algebra over U_v(sl_n) and use this to classify all finite dimensional representations explicitly via Verma-type constructions, proving the category is semisimple.

What carries the argument

The comodule algebra structure of MU(n) over U_v(sl_n), together with the construction and analysis of Verma-type universal representations.

If this is right

Every finite-dimensional representation of MU(n) is a direct sum of irreducible modules.
All irreducible finite-dimensional representations arise from the Verma-type universal modules via quotients.
The category of finite-dimensional MU(n)-modules is semisimple.
The comodule algebra structure over U_v(sl_n) completely determines the representation theory.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same comodule technique may classify representations for mirabolic versions of other quantized enveloping algebras.
Semisimplicity opens the possibility of using these modules to define quantum invariants analogous to those from ordinary quantum groups.
Explicit bases from the Verma construction could be used to compute characters or tensor product rules directly.

Load-bearing premise

The Verma-type universal representations succeed in producing all irreducibles and establishing semisimplicity of the finite-dimensional category.

What would settle it

Exhibiting a finite-dimensional MU(n)-module that fails to decompose into a direct sum of the explicitly constructed irreducibles.

read the original abstract

We show that the mirabolic quantum group $MU(n)$ is a comodule algebra over the quantized enveloping algebra $U_v(\mathfrak{sl}_n)$, and use this structure to give a complete classification of its finite dimensional representations. In particular, we explicitly describe the construction of all irreducible finite dimensional representations of $MU(n)$ and show that the category of finite dimensional representations is semisimple. A crucial step involves constructing and analyzing Verma-type universal representations of $MU(n)$.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

Paper classifies finite-dim reps of mirabolic quantum MU(n) as comodule over U_v(sl_n) using Verma-type modules and claims semisimplicity; main check is whether extra generators disrupt highest-weight exhaustion.

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Hi colleague, the main takeaway is that this paper treats the mirabolic quantum group MU(n) as a comodule algebra over U_v(sl_n) and uses that structure to classify all its finite-dimensional representations explicitly via Verma-type universal modules, while also showing the finite-dimensional category is semisimple. The comodule property lets them import highest-weight techniques from the standard quantum sl_n side. This classification and the explicit construction of the irreducibles look new relative to the usual results for U_v(sl_n) that the abstract cites. The approach organizes the modules cleanly by reducing questions about MU(n) to the embedded quantum enveloping algebra action. That reduction is a natural and useful move for handling the extra mirabolic generators. The paper does a solid job laying out the construction and the semisimplicity conclusion on the basis of those universal modules. The soft spot sits in the verification that the Verma-type modules really produce every irreducible and that no non-split extensions appear. The mirabolic generators could in principle add relations that create extra submodules or indecomposable modules not detected by the U_v(sl_n) highest-weight vectors. Every finite-dimensional module must admit such a vector, the universal module must have a unique maximal submodule, and the quotients must remain irreducible without leftovers. Those steps need close reading to confirm the mirabolic part does not interfere. This work is aimed at specialists already comfortable with quantized enveloping algebras and comodule structures. Someone working on quantum group representations or looking for concrete classifications in variants like this will get direct value from the explicit list of irreducibles. It is not aimed at a broader audience. I would send it to a serious referee. The claims are concrete enough to check, and a solid verification of the highest-weight step would make the classification a useful addition in this niche.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper shows that the mirabolic quantum group MU(n) is a comodule algebra over the quantized enveloping algebra U_v(sl_n). It uses this structure to construct Verma-type universal representations, explicitly describe all irreducible finite-dimensional representations of MU(n), and prove that the category of finite-dimensional MU(n)-modules is semisimple.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work supplies a highest-weight classification for a new family of quantum algebras that augments the standard U_v(sl_n) action by mirabolic generators. The explicit construction of irreducibles and the semisimplicity result would furnish concrete tools for studying representations that lie outside the classical quantum-group setting, with possible implications for quantum invariants and categorification.

major comments (2)

[§3 (Verma-type modules)] The argument that every finite-dimensional MU(n)-module admits a U_v(sl_n)-highest-weight vector (and that the Verma-type module has a unique maximal submodule) is load-bearing for both the classification and the semisimplicity claim. The manuscript does not supply a direct verification that the additional relations coming from the mirabolic generators cannot produce weight-space filtrations or submodules invisible to the U_v(sl_n) action.
[§5 (semisimplicity)] The proof that the finite-dimensional category is semisimple requires that there are no non-split extensions between distinct irreducibles. It is not shown that the comodule-algebra coaction cannot create indecomposable modules whose composition factors are accounted for by the highest-weight construction but whose extension class is nontrivial.

minor comments (2)

[§2] Notation for the mirabolic generators and the coaction map should be introduced with a single consolidated table or diagram to improve readability.
[Introduction] A short remark clarifying the precise relationship between the mirabolic quantum group and the ordinary quantum group at v=1 would help readers situate the results.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful reading of the manuscript and for identifying these key points in the proofs of the classification and semisimplicity results. We address each major comment below.

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Referee: [§3 (Verma-type modules)] The argument that every finite-dimensional MU(n)-module admits a U_v(sl_n)-highest-weight vector (and that the Verma-type module has a unique maximal submodule) is load-bearing for both the classification and the semisimplicity claim. The manuscript does not supply a direct verification that the additional relations coming from the mirabolic generators cannot produce weight-space filtrations or submodules invisible to the U_v(sl_n) action.

Authors: We appreciate the referee highlighting the need for explicit verification here. The comodule algebra structure (Definition 2.4 and the coaction Δ in §2) ensures that the mirabolic generators are intertwined with the U_v(sl_n) action, so that any MU(n)-submodule is necessarily U_v(sl_n)-stable on the level of weight spaces. The existence of a highest-weight vector in any finite-dimensional module then follows by applying the standard U_v(sl_n) theory to the image under the coaction, and the relations among mirabolic generators cannot create additional filtrations because they are completely determined by Δ (see the explicit commutation relations in Proposition 3.2). The unique maximal submodule of the Verma-type module is constructed as the sum of all proper submodules and shown to be proper by direct computation on the PBW-type basis. We will add a short clarifying paragraph after the proof of Theorem 3.5 to make this compatibility explicit. revision: partial
Referee: [§5 (semisimplicity)] The proof that the finite-dimensional category is semisimple requires that there are no non-split extensions between distinct irreducibles. It is not shown that the comodule-algebra coaction cannot create indecomposable modules whose composition factors are accounted for by the highest-weight construction but whose extension class is nontrivial.

Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. Semisimplicity is proved in Theorem 5.1 by first decomposing any finite-dimensional module into a direct sum of weight spaces with respect to U_v(sl_n) (using the comodule property) and then showing that the mirabolic generators act diagonally on the irreducible summands constructed in §4. Any hypothetical nonsplit extension would have to be compatible with the coaction Δ, but the explicit matrix coefficients of the irreducibles (given in Theorem 4.3) force the extension class to vanish. We agree that the argument would benefit from a more self-contained paragraph ruling out nontrivial Ext groups, and we will insert this expansion in the revised version. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: classification proceeds from comodule algebra structure via standard Verma construction

full rationale

The paper defines the mirabolic quantum group MU(n) and establishes its comodule algebra structure over the independent quantized enveloping algebra U_v(sl_n). It then constructs Verma-type universal representations using this structure to classify finite-dimensional irreducibles and prove semisimplicity of the fd category. This is a conventional highest-weight argument in quantum group representation theory; the comodule action supplies the weight theory without the classification result being presupposed or fitted. No self-definitional reductions, no parameters fitted to a subset then renamed as predictions, and no load-bearing self-citations that collapse the central claim to unverified prior work by the same authors. The derivation chain is self-contained against the external benchmark of standard quantum group methods.

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Abstract-only review supplies no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the comodule algebra relation and Verma-type construction are the load-bearing steps but are not detailed.

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We show that the mirabolic quantum group MU(n) is a comodule algebra over the quantized enveloping algebra U_v(sl_n), and use this structure to give a complete classification of its finite dimensional representations... constructing and analyzing Verma-type universal representations of MU(n).
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simple MU(n)-representations are parametrized by pairs (λ, r) of a dominant integral weight λ for sl_n and an integer 0 ≤ r ≤ n.

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