arXiv · 1604.08911
Globally Irreducible Weyl Modules
Abstract
In the representation theory of split reductive algebraic groups, it is well known that every Weyl module with minuscule highest weight is irreducible over every field. Also, the adjoint representation of $E_8$ is also irreducible over every field. In this paper, we prove a converse to these statements, as conjectured by Gross: if a Weyl module is irreducible over every field, it must be either one of these, or trivially constructed from one of these.
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Skip Garibaldi, Robert M. Guralnick, Daniel K. Nakano. 2016-04-29. Globally Irreducible Weyl Modules. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2016.11.038
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