Multiplets of representations and Kostant's Dirac operator for equal rank loop groups

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-01-11014-4MaRDI QIDQ1847871zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors G. D. Landweber

Publication date 27 October 2002

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0005057

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac operatorloop groupmultipletWeyl character formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Universal enveloping (super)algebras (17B35) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

Abstract: Let g be a semi-simple Lie algebra and let h be a reductive subalgebra of maximal rank in g. Given any irreducible representation of g, consider its tensor product with the spin representation associated to the orthogonal complement of h in g. Gross, Kostant, Ramond, and Sternberg recently proved a generalization of the Weyl character formula which decomposes the signed character of this product representation in terms of the characters of a set of irreducible representations of h, called a multiplet. Kostant then constructed a formal h-equivariant Dirac operator on such product representations whose kernel is precisely the multiplet of h-representations corresponding to the given representation of g. We reproduce these results in the Kac-Moody setting for the extended loop algebras Lg and Lh. We prove a homogeneous generalization of the Weyl-Kac character formula, which now yields a multiplet of irreducible positive energy representations of Lh associated to any irreducible positive energy representation of Lg. We construct a Lh-equivariant operator, analogous to Kostant's Dirac operator, on the tensor product of a representation of Lg with the spin representation associated to the complement of Lh in Lg. We then prove that the kernel of this operator gives the Lh-multiplet corresponding to the original representation of Lg.

Review text

Let \(\mathfrak{g}\) be a semisimple Lie algebra and \(\mathfrak{h}\) be a reductive subalgebra of maximal rank in \(\mathfrak{g}\). The author generalizes the recent results of \textit{B. Gross, B. Kostant, P. Ramond} and \textit{S. Sternberg} [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 8441-8442 (1998; Zbl 0918.17002)] to the Kac-Moody setting. In particular, he proves a homogeneous generalization of the Weyl-Kac character formula, which yields a multiplet of irreducible positive energy representations of the loop algebra \(L\mathfrak{h}\) associated to any irreducible positive energy representation of the loop algebra \(L\mathfrak{g}\). An \(L\mathfrak{h}\)-invariant operator on the tensor product of a representation of \(L\mathfrak{g}\) with the spin representation associated with the complement of \(L\mathfrak{h}\) in \(L\mathfrak{g}\), analogous to Kostant's Dirac operator, is constructed. The kernel of this operator gives the \(L\mathfrak{h}\)-multiplet corresponding to the original representation of \(L\mathfrak{g}\).

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