Killing spinor-valued forms and the cone construction

On a pseudo-Riemannian manifold $\mathcal{M}$ we introduce a system of partial differential Killing type equations for spinor-valued differential forms, and study their basic properties. We discuss the relationship between solutions of Killing equations on $\mathcal{M}$ and parallel fields on the metric cone over $\mathcal{M}$ for spinor-valued forms

Discrete Dirac Operators, Critical Embeddings and Ihara-Selberg Functions

The aim of the paper is to formulate a discrete analogue of the claim made by Alvarez-Gaume et al., realizing the partition function of the free fermion on a closed Riemann surface of genus g as a linear combination of 2^{2g} Pfaffians of Dirac operators. Let G=(V,E) be a finite graph embedded in a closed Riemann surface X of genus g, x_e the collection of independent variables associated with each edge e of G (collected in one vector variable x) and S the set of all 2^{2g} Spin-structures on X. We introduce 2^{2g} rotations rot_s and (2|E| times 2|E|) matrices D(s)(x), s in S, of the transitions between the oriented edges of G determined by rotations rot_s. We show that the generating function for the even subsets of edges of G, i.e., the Ising partition function, is a linear combination of the square roots of 2^{2g} Ihara-Selberg functions I(D(s)(x)) also called Feynman functions. By a result of Foata--Zeilberger holds I(D(s)(x))= det(I-D'(s)(x)), where D'(s)(x) is obtained from D(s)(x) by replacing some entries by 0. Thus each Feynman function is computable in polynomial time. We suggest that in the case of critical embedding of a bipartite graph G, the Feynman functions provide suitable discrete analogues for the Pfaffians of discrete Dirac operators

On the composition structure of the twisted Verma modules for sl(3,C)\mathfrak{sl}(3,\mathbb{C})

We discuss some aspects of the composition structure of twisted Verma modules for the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{sl}(3, \mathbb{C})$, including the explicit structure of singular vectors for both $\mathfrak{sl}(3, \mathbb{C})$ and one of its Lie subalgebras $\mathfrak{sl}(2, \mathbb{C})$, and also of their generators. Our analysis is based on the use of partial Fourier tranform applied to the realization of twisted Verma modules as $\mathrm{{D}}$-modules on the Schubert cells in the full flag manifold for $\mathrm{SL}(3, \mathbb{C})$