Vertex-algebraic structures underlying recursions

Seminar: 
Geometry, Symmetry and Physics
Event time: 
Monday, September 21, 2009 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
431DL
Speaker: 
Corina Calinescu
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

In this talk we survey recent developments in the study of principal subspaces of standard modules for untwisted affine Lie algebras of types A, D, E. We discuss presentations of principal subspaces and recursions satisfied by their graded dimensions. This is joint work Jim Lepowsky and Antun Milas.