학술논문

Characters of the Feigin-Stoyanovsky subspaces and Brion’s theorem
Document Type
Original Paper
Source
Functional Analysis and Its Applications. January 2015 49(1):15-24
Subject
representation theory
affine Lie algebras
character formulas
convex polyhedra
Brion’s theorem
Language
English
ISSN
0016-2663
1573-8485
Abstract
We give an alternative proof of the main result of [1]; 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 $$widehat {s{l_n}}(\mathbb{C})$$. 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.