Bases for infinite dimensional simple osp(1|2n)-modules respecting the branching osp(1|2n)⊃ gl(n)
Abstract
We study the effects of the branching osp(1|2n)⊃ gl(n) on a particular class of simple infinite-dimensional osp(1|2n)-modules L(p) characterized by a positive integer p. In the first part we use combinatorial methods such as Young tableaux and Young subgroups to construct a new basis for L(p) that respects this branching and we express the basis elements explicitly in two distinct ways. First as monomials of negative root vectors of gl(n) acting on the gl(n)-highest weight vectors in L(p) and then as polynomials in the generators of osp(1|2n) acting on the osp(1|2n)-lowest weight vector in L(p). In the second part we use extremal projectors and the theory of Mickelsson-Zhelobenko algebras to give new explicit constructions of raising and lowering operators related to the branching osp(1|2n)⊃ gl(n). We use the raising operators to give new expressions for the elements of the Gel'fand-Zetlin basis for L(p) as monomials of operators from U(osp(1|2n)) acting on the osp(1|2n)-lowest weight vector in L(p). We observe that the Gel'fand-Zetlin basis for L(p) is related to the basis constructed earlier in the paper by a triangular transition matrix. We end the paper with a detailed example treating the case n=3.