Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4597008 Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 2011 26 Pages PDF
Abstract

We define a notion of pseudo-unitarizability for weight modules over a generalized Weyl algebra (of rank one, with commutative coefficient ring R), which is assumed to carry an involution of the form X∗=Y, R∗⊆R. We prove that a weight module V is pseudo-unitarizable iff it is isomorphic to its finitistic dual V♯. Using the classification of weight modules by Drozd, Guzner and Ovsienko, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for an indecomposable weight module to be isomorphic to its finitistic dual, and thus to be pseudo-unitarizable. Some examples are given, including Uq(sl2) for q a root of unity.

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