In representation theory, a Jantzen filtration is a filtration of a Verma module of a semisimple Lie algebra, or a Weyl module of a reductive algebraic group of positive characteristic. Jantzen filtrations were introduced by Jantzen (1979).

If M(λ) is a Verma module of a semisimple Lie algebra with highest weight λ, then the Janzen filtration is a decreasing filtration

${\displaystyle M(\lambda )=M(\lambda )^{0}\supseteq M(\lambda )^{1}\supseteq M(\lambda )^{2}\supseteq \cdots .}$

It has the following properties:

• M(λ)¹=N(λ), the unique maximal proper submodule of M(λ)
• The quotients M(λ)ⁱ/M(λ)ⁱ⁺¹ have non-degenerate contravariant bilinear forms.
• The Jantzen sum formula holds:

${\displaystyle \sum _{i>0}{\text{Ch}}(M(\lambda )^{i})=\sum _{\alpha >0,s_{\alpha }(\lambda )<\lambda }{\text{Ch}}(M(s_{\alpha }\cdot \lambda ))}$

where ${\displaystyle {\text{Ch}}(\cdot )}$ denotes the formal character.

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