Whittaker modules and representations of finite $W$-algebras of queer Lie superalgebras

Abstract

We study various categories of Whittaker modules over the queer Lie superalgebras $\mathfrak q(n)$. We formulate standard Whittaker modules and reduce the problem of composition factors of these standard Whittaker modules to that of Verma modules in the BGG categories $\mathcal O$ of $\mathfrak q(n)$. We also obtain an analogue of Losev-Shu-Xiao decomposition for the finite $W$-superalgebras $U(\mathfrak q(n), E)$ of $\mathfrak q(n)$ associated to an odd nilpotent element $E\in \mathfrak q(n)_{\bar{1}}$. As an application, we establish several equivalences of categories of Whittaker $\mathfrak q(n)$-modules and analogues of BGG category of $U(\mathfrak q(n), E)$-modules. In particular, we reduce the multiplicity problem of Verma modules over $U(\mathfrak q(n), E)$ to that of the Verma modules in the BGG categories $\mathcal O$ of $\mathfrak q(n)$.