Exterior powers of the adjoint representation and the Weyl ring of E₈

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2020.01.020MaRDI QIDQ2300484zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 27 February 2020

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04380

applications to algebraic geometry and mathematical physics computational methods in Lie theory exceptional Lie groups general properties and structure of complex Lie groups invariants of reflection groups semisimple Lie groups and their representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exceptional groups (20G41) Computational methods for problems pertaining to topological groups (22-08) General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70)

Abstract: I derive explicitly all polynomial relations in the character ring of

E_{8}

of the form

c h i_{w e d g e^{k} m a t h f r a k e_{8}} - m a t h f r a k p_{k} (c h i_{1}, d o t s, c h i_{8}) = 0

, where

w e d g e^{k} m a t h f r a k e_{8}

is an arbitrary exterior power of the adjoint representation and

c h i_{i}

is the

i^{m t h}

fundamental character. This has simultaneous implications for the theory of relativistic integrable systems, Seiberg-Witten theory, quantum topology, orbifold Gromov-Witten theory, and the arithmetic of elliptic curves. The solution is obtained by reducing the problem to a (large, but finite) dimensional linear problem, which is amenable to an efficient solution via distributed computation.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a simply-connected simple complex Lie group. Its representation ring \(\text{Rep}_{\mathbb C}(G)\) is a polynomial ring and \[\text{Rep}_{\mathbb C}(G)\simeq{\mathbb Z}[\chi_1,\cdots,\chi_r]\] where the \(\chi_j\) denotes the character of the \(j^{th}\) fundamental representation of \(G\) and \(r\) is the rank of \(G\). Given a finite-dimensional representation \(V\) of \(G\), consider \(\Lambda^kV\) the \(k^{th}\) exterior power of \(V\). The paper under review addresses the problem of finding explicit polynomial relations in \(\text{Rep}_{\mathbb C}(G)\) of the form \[0=\chi_{\Lambda^kV}-p_k(\chi_1,\cdots,\chi_r)\] in the case when \(G\) is the exceptional group \(E_8\) and \(V={\mathfrak e}_8\) is the adjoint representation.

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