Kac's conjecture from Nakajima quiver varieties.

DOI10.1007/S00222-010-0241-3MaRDI QIDQ977166zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tamás Hausel

Publication date 21 June 2010

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1569

zbMATH Keywords

Betti numbersgenerating functionsKac conjectureNakajima quiver varietiesWeyl-Kac character formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of quivers and partially ordered sets (16G20) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67)

Abstract: We prove a generating function formula for the Betti numbers of Nakajima quiver varieties. We prove that it is a q-deformation of the Weyl-Kac character formula. In particular this implies that the constant term of the polynomial counting the number of absolutely indecomposable representations of a quiver equals the multiplicity of a a certain weight in the corresponding Kac-Moody algebra, which was conjectured by Kac in 1982.

Review text

In the paper under review the author presents a generating function formula for the Betti numbers of Nakajima quiver varieties and shows that this formula is a \(q\)-deformation of the Weyl-Kac character formula. To prove the formula the author uses arithmetic Fourier transform for holomorphically symplectic quotients. As an application it is shown that the constant term of the polynomial counting absolutely indecomposable representations of a quiver equals the multiplicity of a certain root in the corresponding Kac-Moody algebra. -- This completes the proof of Kac's conjecture [from \textit{V. G. Kac}, in Invariant theory, Proc. 1st 1982 Sess. C.I.M.E., Montecatini/Italy, Lect. Notes Math. 996, 74-108 (1983; Zbl 0534.14004)]. An alternative proof of the main results of this paper can be found in [\textit{S. Mozgovoy}, ``On the multiplicities of the irreducible highest weight modules over Kac-Moody algebras, \url{arXiv:math/0609349}].

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