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most citedDerived subalgebras of centralisers and finite W-algebras

21 citations · 38 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

math.RT2026

Simple Harish-Chandra bimodules in positive characteristics

Lewis Groves, Lewis Topley, Matthew Westaway

Let be a standard reductive group over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic and let . The category of Harish-Chandra b…

math.RT2026

Parabolic induction for modular finite -algebras

Simon Goodwin, Lewis Topley, Matt Westaway

We study the modules of minimal dimension for reduced enveloping algebras of Lie algebras of reductive algebraic groups using the theory of modular finite -algebras. First of al…

math.RT2024

Modular representations of the Yangian

Hao Chang, Jinxin Hu, Lewis Topley

Let be the Yangian associated to the general linear Lie algebra , defined over an algebraically closed field $\mathbbm{k}$ of characteristic . In this…

math.RT2023

Equivariant deformation theory for nilpotent slices in symplectic Lie algebras

Filippo Ambrosio, Lewis Topley

The Slodowy slice is a flat Poisson deformation of its nilpotent part, and it was demonstrated by Lehn-Namikawa-Sorger that there is an interesting infinite family of nilpotent orb…

math.RT2023

On induced completely prime primitive ideals in enveloping algebras of classical Lie algebras

Simon M. Goodwin, Lewis Topley, Matthew Westaway

A distinguished family of completely prime primitive ideals in the universal enveloping algebra of a reductive Lie algebra over are those ideals const…

math.RT2023

Modular Representations of Truncated current Lie algebras

Matthew Chaffe, Lewis Topley

In this paper we consider the structure and representation theory of truncated current algebras associated to the Lie algebra $\mathfra…

math.QA2023

The centre of the modular affine vertex algebra

Tomoyuki Arakawa, Lewis Topley, Juan J. Villarreal

The Feigin--Frenkel theorem states that, over the complex numbers, the centre of the universal affine vertex algebra at the critical level is an infinite rank polynomial algebra. T…

math.RT2023

Category for truncated current Lie algebras

Matthew Chaffe, Lewis Topley

In this paper we study an analogue of the Bernstein--Gelfand--Gelfand category for truncated current Lie algebras attached to a complex semisimple Li…

math.AG2021

Parabolic induction for Springer fibres

Lewis Topley, Neil Saunders

Let be a reductive group satisfying the standard hypotheses, with Lie algebra . For each nilpotent orbit in a Levi subalgebra we…

math.RT2021★ 1 cited

One dimensional representations of finite -algebras, Dirac reduction and the orbit method

Lewis Topley

In this paper we study the variety of one dimensional representations of a finite -algebra attached to a classical Lie algebra, giving a precise description of the dimensions of…

math.RT2020

Modular representations of Lie algebras of reductive groups and Humphreys' conjecture

Alexander Premet, Lewis Topley

Let be connected reductive algebraic group defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic and suppose that is a good prime for the root system of ,…

math.RT2020★ 2 cited

Universal filtered quantizations of nilpotent Slodowy slices

Filippo Ambrosio, Giovanna Carnovale, Francesco Esposito +1

Every conic symplectic singularity admits a universal Poisson deformation and a universal filtered quantization, thanks to the work of Losev and Namikawa. We begin this paper by sh…

math.RT2019★ 2 cited

Restricted shifted Yangians and restricted finite -algebras

Simon M. Goodwin, Lewis Topley

We study the truncated shifted Yangian over an algebraically closed field of characteristic , which is known to be isomorphic to the finite -alg…

math.RT2018

A proof of the first Kac-Weisfeiler conjecture in large characteristics

Benjamin Martin, David Stewart, Akaki Tikaradze +1

In 1971, Kac and Weisfeiler made two influential conjectures describing the dimensions of simple modules of a restricted Lie algebra . The first predicts the maximal…

math.GR2018

Smoothness of stabilisers in generic characteristic

Benjamin Martin, David I. Stewart, Lewis Topley

Let be a commutative unital ring. Given a finitely presented affine -group scheme acting on a separated scheme of finite type over , we show that there is a prime…

math.RT2018★ 9 cited

Minimal dimensional representations of reduced enveloping algebras for

Simon M. Goodwin, Lewis Topley

Let , where is an algebraically closed field of characteristic , and . Let and denote by…

math.RT2017★ 2 cited

The Orbit Method for Poisson Orders

Stephane Launois, Lewis Topley

A version of Kirillov's orbit method states that the primitive spectrum of a generic quantisation of a Poisson algebra should correspond bijectively to the symplectic leave…

math.RT2017

The p-centre of Yangians and shifted Yangians

Jonathan Brundan, Lewis Topley

We study the Yangian associated to the general linear Lie algebra over a field of positive characteristic, as well as its shifted analog . Our main…

math.RA2017

On the semi-centre of a Poisson algebra

Cesar Lecoutre, Lewis Topley

If is a Lie algebra then the semi-centre of the Poisson algebra is the subalgebra generated by ad-eigenvectors. In this paper we ab…

math.RA2017

Transfer results for Frobenius extensions

Stephane Launois, Lewis Topley

We study Frobenius extensions which are free-filtered by a totally ordered, finitely generated abelian group, and their free-graded counterparts. First we show that the Frobenius p…

math.RT2017

Modular finite -algebras

Simon M. Goodwin, Lewis W. Topley

Let be an algebraically closed field of characteristic and let be a connected reductive algebraic group over . Under some standard hypothesis on , we give a d…

math.RT2016

A non-restricted counterexample to the first Kac-Weisfeiler conjecture

Lewis Topley

In 1971 Kac and Weisfeiler made two important conjectures regarding the representation theory of restricted Lie algebras over fields of positive characteristic. The first of these…

math.RT2016

Harish-Chandra invariants and the centre of the reduced enveloping algebra

Lewis W. Topley

In this article we consider the centre of the reduced enveloping algebra of the Lie algebra of a reductive algebraic group in very good characteristic p > 2. The Harish-Chandra cen…

math.RT2015

A Morita theorem for modular finite W-algebras

Lewis Topley

We consider the Lie algebra of a simple, simply connected algebraic group over a field of large positive characteristic. For each nilpotent orbit $\mathcal{O} \subse…