LIE ALGEBRA MODULES WHICH ARE LOCALLY FINITE AND WITH FINITE MULTIPLICITIES OVER THE SEMISIMPLE PART

Abstract For a finite-dimensional Lie algebra $\mathfrak {L}$ over $\mathbb {C}$ with a fixed Levi decomposition $\mathfrak {L} = \mathfrak {g} \ltimes \mathfrak {r}$ , where $\mathfrak {g}$ is semisimple, we investigate $\mathfrak {L}$ -modules which decompose, as $\mathfrak {g}$ -modules, into a direct sum of simple finite-dimensional $\mathfrak {g}$ -modules with finite multiplicities. We call such modules $\mathfrak {g}$ -Harish-Chandra modules. We give a complete classification of simple $\mathfrak {g}$ -Harish-Chandra modules for the Takiff Lie algebra associated to $\mathfrak {g} = \mathfrak {sl}_2$ , and for the Schrödinger Lie algebra, and obtain some partial results in other cases. An adapted version of Enright’s and Arkhipov’s completion functors plays a crucial role in our arguments. Moreover, we calculate the first extension groups of infinite-dimensional simple $\mathfrak {g}$ -Harish-Chandra modules and their annihilators in the universal enveloping algebra, for the Takiff $\mathfrak {sl}_2$ and the Schrödinger Lie algebra. In the general case, we give a sufficient condition for the existence of infinite-dimensional simple $\mathfrak {g}$ -Harish-Chandra modules.