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Three results on representations of Mackey Lie algebras

I. Penkov and V. Serganova have recently introduced, for any non-degenerate pairing $W\otimes V\to\mathbb C$ of vector spaces, the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{gl}^M=\mathfrak{gl}^M(V,W)$ consisting of endomorphisms of $V$ whose duals preserve $W\subseteq V^*$. In their work, the category $\mathbb{T}_{\mathfrak{gl}^M}$ of $\mathfrak{gl}^M$-modules which are finite length subquotients of the tensor algebra $T(W\otimes V)$ is singled out and studied. In this note we solve three problems posed by these authors concerning the categories $\mathbb{T}_{\mathfrak{gl}^M}$. Denoting by $\mathbb{T}_{V\otimes W}$ the category with the same objects as $\mathbb{T}_{\mathfrak{gl}^M}$ but regarded as $V\otimes W$-modules, we first show that when $W$ and $V$ are paired by dual bases, the functor $\mathbb{T}_{\mathfrak{gl}^M}\to \mathbb{T}_{V\otimes W}$ taking a module to its largest weight submodule with respect to a sufficiently nice Cartan subalgebra of $V\otimes W$ is a tensor equivalence. Secondly, we prove that when $W$ and $V$ are countable-dimensional, the objects of $\mathbb{T}_{\mathrm{End}(V)}$ have finite length as $\mathfrak{gl}^M$-modules. Finally, under the same hypotheses, we compute the socle filtration of a simple object in $\mathbb{T}_{\mathrm{End}(V)}$ as a $\mathfrak{gl}^M$-module.