Dirac cohomology for the BGG category $\mathcal{O}$

Abstract

We study Dirac cohomology $H_D^{\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{h}}(M)$ for modules belonging to category $\mathcal{O}$ of a finite dimensional complex semisimple Lie algebra. We prove Vogan's conjecture, a nonvanishing result for $H_D^{\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{h}}(M)$ while we show that in the case of a Hermitian symmetric pair $(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{k})$ and an irreducible unitary module $M\in\mathcal{O}$, Dirac cohomology coincides with the nilpotent Lie algebra cohomology with coefficients in $M$. In the last part, we show that the higher Dirac cohomology and index introduced by Pand\v{z}i\'c and Somberg satisfy nice homological properties for $M\in\mathcal{O}$.