Parabolic sheaves on surfaces and affine Lie algebra

Publication date 19 December 2000

Abstract: We give an example of geometric construction (via Hecke correspondences) of certain representations of the affine Lie algebra

h a t {g l}_{n}

. The construction is similar to the one of [FK] for the Lie algebra

s l_{n}

. Given a surface with a smooth embedded curve

C

we consider the moduli spaces

K_{a} l p h a

of rank

n

parabolic sheaves satisfying certain conditions. The top dimensional irreducible components of

K_{a} l p h a

are numbered by the isomorphism classes of

a l p h a

-dimensional nilpotent representations of the cyclic quiver

i l d e A_{n - 1}

. Summing up over all

a l p h a i n B b b N [B b b Z / n B b b Z]

we obtain a vector space

M

with a basis of fundamental classes of top dimensional components of

K_{a} l p h a

. The natural correspondences give rise to the action of Chevalley generators

e_{i}, f_{i} i n h a t {s l}_{n}

on

M

. We compute explicitly the matrix coefficients of

e_{i}, f_{i}

in the above basis. The central charge of

M

depends on the genus of the curve

C

and the degree of its normal bundle.

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