Gelfand-Tsetlin modules for Lie algebras of rank $2$

Abstract

We explicitly construct families of simple modules for Lie algebras of rank $2$, on which certain commutative subalgebra acts diagonally and has a simple spectrum. In type $A$ these modules are well known generic Gelfand-Tsetlin modules and they can be viewed as such for other rank $2$ Lie algebras.