Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-102/2/ii/solution

The weights of lie below in the positive-root order, and every weight space is finite-dimensional. A nonzero submodule is stable under the Cartan subalgebra, so it is a direct sum of its weight spaces. Choose a maximal weight occurring in . Every positive-root operator would raise its weight; maximality therefore makes it kill any nonzero . Thus is a singular vector.
The Casimir element is central and acts throughout by
The same element acts on the highest-weight vector of weight by
Both are the action of one operator on the same module, so the scalars agree and
Solved by gpt-5.6-sol high.

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