Galois orders of symmetric differential operators

Abstract

In this survey we discuss the theory of Galois rings and orders developed in ([20], [22]) by Sergey Ovsienko and the first author. This concept allows to unify the representation theories of Generalized Weyl Algebras ([4]) and of the universal enveloping algebras of Lie algebras. It also had an impact on the structure theory of algebras. In particular, this abstract framework has provided a new proof of the Gelfand-Kirillov Conjecture ([24]) in the classical and the quantum case for gln and sln in~[18] and~[21], respectively. We will give a detailed proof of the Gelfand-Kirillov Conjecture in the classical case and show that the algebra of symmetric differential operators has a structure of a Galois order.