Characters of the Feigin--Stoyanovsky Subspaces and Brion's Theorem

I. Yu. Makhlin

Funkcionalʹnyj analiz i ego priloženiâ, Tome 49 (2015) no. 1, pp. 18-30

Résumé

We give an alternative proof of the main result of [B. Feigin, M. Jimbo, S. Loktev, T. Miwa, E. Mukhin, The Ramanujan J., 7:3 (2003), 519–530]; the proof relies on Brion's theorem about convex polyhedra. The result itself can be viewed as a formula for the character of the Feigin–Stoyanovsky subspace of an integrable irreducible representation of the affine Lie algebra $\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}_n}(\mathbb{C})$. Our approach is to assign integer points of a certain polytope to vectors comprising a monomial basis of the subspace and then compute the character by using (a variation of) Brion's theorem.

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Keywords: representation theory, character formulas, convex polyhedra, Brion's theorem.
Mots-clés : affine Lie algebras