Formal character of a weight module Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For a module with finite-dimensional weight spaces, its formal character is in the completed group algebra of the weight lattice.
The weight lattice is
For each root , restrict to the subalgebra
If , the classification shows that the -eigenvalue is an integer. Hence .
The same classification makes every -string symmetric under
and preserves weight multiplicity. Since the Weyl group is generated by these simple reflections,
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After ordering a symplectic basis in two blocks, write
Matrices in the Symplectic Lie algebra have block form
The root-space decomposition is
For example, these one-dimensional spaces are spanned respectively by
Thus this is the Cn root system
The upper-triangular choice gives
Its simple roots, highest root, fundamental weights, and half-sum of positive roots are
Using the notation requested in the paper, the root lattice and weight lattice are
so . This reverses the common notation in which the root lattice is called and the weight lattice is called .
Since a multiple-edge arrow in a Dynkin diagram points toward the shorter root, the finite and extended diagrams are
and
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Use the B2 root system convention
Thus is the five-dimensional vector representation of the Special orthogonal Lie algebra . Label its weight vertices
The crystal basis is the colored chain
because each Kashiwara operator subtracts .
For the tensor product of crystals, write for . The complete colored-arrow graph is compactly specified by
Its three connected highest-weight components start at , , and . Their vertex sets are
Their highest weights and dimensions identify the ten-vertex component with the exterior square and the other two with the symmetric square. Therefore
of dimensions and , respectively.
The module is the four-dimensional spin representation. Its weights are , and its crystal is
Every weight of lies in the root lattice, so every weight of every tensor power also lies in that lattice. But represents the nonzero coset in the quotient of the weight lattice by the root lattice. Consequently no irreducible constituent of can have highest weight , and never occurs.
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The fundamental weights satisfy . Since and , solving gives
The full B2 root system is
The weight lattice is generated by ; geometrically it consists of the integer lattice together with the translate in which both coordinates are half-integers.
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