Jet Schemes, Quantum Dilogarithm and Feigin-Stoyanovsky's Principal Subspaces

Abstract

We analyze the structure of Feigin-Stoyanovsky's principal subspaces of affine Lie algebra from the jet algebra viewpoint. For type $A$ level one principal subspaces, we show that their shifted multi-graded Hilbert series can be expressed either using the quantum dilogarithm or as certain generating functions ``counting" finite-dimensional representations of $A$-type quivers. This notably results in novel fermionic character formulas for these principal subspaces. Moreover, our result implies that all level one principal subspaces of type $A$ are ``classically free" as vertex algebras. We also analyze infinite jet algebras associated to principal subspaces of affine vertex algebras $L_{1}(\mathfrak{so}_5)$, $L_{1}(\mathfrak{so}_8)$ and $L_1(\frak{g}_2)$. We derive a new character formula for the principal subspace of $L_1(\mathfrak{so}_5)$, proving that it is classically free, and present evidence that the principal subspaces of $L_1(\mathfrak{so}_8)$ and of $L_1(\frak{g}_2)$ are also classically free.