Multiplets of representations and Kostant's Dirac operator for equal rank loop groups
Landweber, Gregory D.
Duke Math. J., Tome 110 (2001) no. 1, p. 121-160 / Harvested from Project Euclid
Let $\mathfrak {g}$ be a semisimple Lie algebra, and let $\mathfrak {h}$ be a reductive subalgebra of maximal rank in $\mathfrak {g}$. Given any irreducible representation of $\mathfrak {g}$, consider its tensor product with the spin representation associated to the orthogonal complement of $\mathfrak {h}$ in $\mathfrak {g}$. Recently, B. Gross, B. Kostant, P. Ramond, and S. Sternberg [2] 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 $\mathfrak {h}$, called a multiplet. Kostant [7] then constructed a formal $\mathfrak {h}$-equivariant Dirac operator on such product representations whose kernel is precisely the multiplet of $\mathfrak {h}$-representations corresponding to the given representation of $\mathfrak {g}$. ¶ We reproduce these results in the Kac-Moody setting for the extended loop algebras $\tilde {L}\mathfrak {g}$ and $\tilde {L}\mathfrak {h}$. We prove a homogeneous generalization of the Weyl-Kac character formula, which now yields a multiplet of irreducible positive energy representations of $L\mathfrak {h}$ associated to any irreducible positive energy representation of $L\mathfrak {g}$. We construct an $L\mathfrak {h}$-equivariant operator, analogous to Kostant's Dirac operator, on the tensor product of a representation of $L\mathfrak {g}$ with the spin representation associated to the complement of $L\mathfrak {h}$ in $L\mathfrak {g}$. We then prove that the kernel of this operator gives the $L\mathfrak {h}$-multiplet corresponding to the original representation of $L\mathfrak {g}$.
Publié le : 2001-10-01
Classification:  17B67,  22E46,  22E67,  58J20,  81R10
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Landweber, Gregory D. Multiplets of representations and Kostant's Dirac operator for equal rank loop groups. Duke Math. J., Tome 110 (2001) no. 1, pp.  121-160. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1087574814/