Factorizable Module Algebras

The aim of this paper is to introduce and study a large class of $\mathfrak{g}$-module algebras that we call factorizable by generalizing the Gauss factorization of square or rectangular matrices. This class includes coordinate algebras of corresponding reductive groups G, their parabolic subgroups, basic affine spaces, and many others. It turns out that products of factorizable algebras are also factorizable and it is easy to create a factorizable algebra out of virtually any $\mathfrak{g}$-module algebra. We also have quantum versions of all these constructions in the category of $U_{q}(\mathfrak{g})$-module algebras. Quite surprisingly, our quantum factorizable algebras are naturally acted on by the quantized enveloping algebra $U_{q}(\mathfrak{g}^{\ast })$ of the dual Lie bialgebra $\mathfrak{g}^{\ast }$ of $\mathfrak{g}$.

DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS ON AND THE AFFINE GRASSMANNIAN

We describe the equivariant cohomology of cofibers of spherical perverse sheaves on the affine Grassmannian of a reductive algebraic group in terms of the geometry of the Langlands dual group. In fact we give two equivalent descriptions: one in terms of $\mathscr{D}$-modules of the basic affine space, and one in terms of intertwining operators for universal Verma modules. We also construct natural collections of isomorphisms parameterized by the Weyl group in these three contexts, and prove that they are compatible with our isomorphisms. As applications we reprove some results of the first author and of Braverman and Finkelberg.

GLUING OF ABELIAN CATEGORIES AND DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS ON THE BASIC AFFINE SPACE

The notion of gluing of abelian categories was introduced in a paper by Kazhdan and Laumon in 1988 and studied further by Polishchuk. We observe that this notion is a particular case of a general categorical construction.We then apply this general notion to the study of the ring of global differential operators $\mathcal{D}$ on the basic affine space $G/U$ (here $G$ is a semi-simple simply connected algebraic group over $\mathbb{C}$ and $U\subset G$ is a maximal unipotent subgroup).We show that the category of $\mathcal{D}$-modules is glued from $|W|$ copies of the category of $D$-modules on $G/U$ where $W$ is the Weyl group, and the Fourier transform is used to define the gluing data. As an application we prove that the algebra $\mathcal{D}$ is Noetherian, and get some information on its homological properties.AMS 2000 Mathematics subject classification: Primary 13N10; 16S32; 17B10; 18C20

Wakimoto modules for the affine Lie superalgebras A(m−1, n−1)(1) and D(2, 1, a)(1)

In this paper, we construct Wakimoto modules for basic affine Lie superalgebras of type A(m−1, n−1)(1) and D(2, 1, a)(1). As an application, we compute the characters of irreducible highest weight modules at the critical level.