Contracting modules and standard monomial theory for symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras

Kostka–foulkes Polynomials for Symmetrizable Kac–moody Algebras

We introduce a generalization of the classical Hall–Littlewood and Kostka–Foulkes polynomials to all symmetrizable Kac–Moody algebras. We prove that these Kostka–Foulkes polynomials coincide with the natural generalization of Lusztig’s t-analog of weight multiplicities, thereby extending a theorem of Kato. For g an affine Kac–Moody algebra, we define t-analogs of string functions and use Chered...

A Theory of Lorentzian Kac–moody Algebras

We present a variant of the Theory of Lorentzian (i. e. with a hyperbolic generalized Cartan matrix) Kac–Moody algebras recently developed by V. A. Gritsenko and the author. It is closely related with and strongly uses results of R. Borcherds. This theory should generalize well-known Theories of finite Kac–Moody algebras (i. e. classical semi-simple Lie algebras corresponding to positive genera...

Character Formulas for Tilting Modules over Kac-moody Algebras

We show how to express the characters of tilting modules in a (possibly parabolic) category O over a Kac-Moody algebra in terms of the characters of simple highest weight modules. This settles, in lots of cases, Conjecture 7.2 of Kazhdan-Lusztig-Polynome and eine Kombinatorik für Kipp-Moduln, Representation Theory (An electronic Journal of the AMS) (1997), by the author, describing the characte...

Kac-Moody Algebras in M-theory

Lectures on Conformal Field Theory and Kac-moody Algebras

This is an introduction to the basic ideas and to a few further selected topics in conformal quantum field theory and in the theory of Kac-Moody algebras. These lectures were held at the Graduate Course on Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Models (Budapest, August 1996). They will appear in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Physics edited by Z. Horvath and L. Palla. —————— X Heisenb...