Vertex operators, Grassmannians, and Hilbert schemes (Q608914)

In the paper under review, the author studies interactions among vertex operators, Grassmannians, and Hilbert schemes. The infinite Grassmannian is approximated by finite-dimensional cutoffs, and a family of fermionic vertex operators is introduced as the limit of geometric correspondences on the equivariant cohomology groups with respect to a one-dimensional torus actions on the cutoffs. The author proves that in the localization basis, these operators are the fermionic vertex operators on the infinite wedge representation. Moreover, the boson-fermion correspondence, locality and intertwining properties with the Virasoro algebra are the limits of relations on the cutoffs. The author further shows that these operators coincide with the vertex operators defined by A. Okounkov and the author in an earlier work on the equivariant cohomology groups of the Hilbert schemes of points on the affine plane with respect to a special torus action.