A Construction of the Level 3 Modules for the Affine Lie Algebra $A_2^{(2)}$ and a New Combinatorial Identity of the Rogers-Ramanujan Type
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Abstract:
We obtain a vertex operator construction of level 3 standard representations for the affine Lie algebra $A_2^{(2)}$. As a corollary, we also get new conbinatorial identities.References
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Additional Information
- Stefano Capparelli
- Affiliation: address Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma-1, P.le A. Moro, 00185 Roma, Italy
- Email: capparel@mat.uniroma1.it
- Received by editor(s): January 12, 1994
- © Copyright 1996 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), 481-501
- MSC (1991): Primary 17B65, 17B67, 05A19
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01535-8
- MathSciNet review: 1333389