Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 102 2 ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
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 byThe same element acts on the highest-weight vector of weight byBoth are the action of one operator on the same module, so the scalars agree and