TITLE: Integral lattices in Lie group representations
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: Let $G$ be a split semisimple algebraic group scheme over $\mathbf{Z}$ (I'm mostly interested in the case $G = Sp_4$).
Let $V$ be an irreducible representation of the generic fibre $G_{\mathbf{Q}}$, of some highest weight $\lambda$, and $v$ a choice of highest-weight vector. Then there is a notion of an "admissible $\mathbf{Z}$-lattice" in $V$: it's a $\mathbf{Z}$-lattice $V_{\mathbf{Z}}$ in $V$ for which the structure map $G_{\mathbf{Q}} \to GL(V)$ extends to a map of $\mathbf{Z}$-group schemes $G_\mathbf{Z} \to GL(V_\mathbf{Z})$, and such that the intersection of $V_{\mathbf{Z}}$ with the highest-weight space $\mathbf{Q} \cdot v$ is $\mathbf{Z} \cdot v$. There are finitely many of these, and in particular there's a maximal and a minimal one.
My question is this: let $P$ be a parabolic subgroup (containing our fixed choice of Borel) and $M$ its Levi factor. It's easy to see that $V$ breaks up as a direct sum of eigenspaces uder $Z(M)$, and the highest-weight eigenspace is the weight $\lambda$ representation $W$ of $M$, with $v$ as its highest weight vector. Moreover, the image in $W$ of an admissible lattice in $V$ is an admissible lattice in $W$.

Is the projection to $W$ of the maximal (or minimal) admissible lattice in $V$ equal to the maximal (resp. minimal) admissible lattice in $W$?

(If this works for the minimal lattice it works for the maximal one, and vice versa, because the minimal and maximal lattices are dual to each other.)

REPLY [6 votes]: Let $\mathfrak{n}_-$ be the Lie algebra of the derived subgroup $N_-$ of $B_{-}$ where $B_{-}=TN_-$ is a Borel subgroup of $G$ opposite to a Borel subgroup $B_+\subset P$ (here $T$ is a split maximal torus of $G$ defined over $\mathbb{Z}$). 
If $V_\mathbb{Z}$ is a minimal admissible $\mathbb{Z}$-lattice then there is a highest weight vector $v\in V$ (for $B_+$) such that $V_{\mathbb{Z}}=U^{-}_{\mathbb Z}\cdot v$ where $U^{-}_{\mathbb Z}$ is the Kostant $\mathbb{Z}$-form of the universal enveloping algebra $U(\mathfrak{n}_-)$. It is spanned over $\mathbb{Z}$ by the PBW-monomials in
$e_\alpha^n/n!$ where $\alpha$ is a negative root of $G$ with respect to $T$ and $n\in \mathbb{Z}_{\ge 0}$ (the root vectors $e_\alpha$ should come from a Chevalley basis of $\mathfrak{g}={\rm Lie}(G)$). It follows that $V_\mathbb{Z}\cap W$ is spanned over $\mathbb{Z}$ by the elements of the form $X\cdot v$ where $X$ is a PBW monomial in $e_\alpha^n/n!$ and $\alpha$ is a negative root of $P$ with respect to $T$.
This shows that $V_\mathbb{Z}\cap W$ is a minimal admissible lattice for a Levi subgroup of $P$.