Faithfulness of highest-weight modules for Iwasawa algebras

Abstract

We prove faithfulness of infinite-dimensional generalised Verma modules for Iwasawa algebras corresponding to split simple Lie algebras with a Chevalley basis. We use this to prove faithfulness of all infinite-dimensional highest-weight modules in the case of type A. In this case we also show that all non-zero two-sided ideals of the corresponding Iwasawa algebras have finite codimension, and in particular all non-zero prime ideals are annihilators of finite-dimensional simple modules.