Fock space of level infinity and characters of vertex operators
The (fermionic) Fock space provides a general model in quantum mechanics to construct the quantum states of an unknown number of identical particles from a single particle Hilbert space V. The Fock space F is (the Hilbert space completion of) the direct sum of the (anti-)symmetric tensors in the (anti-)symmetric tensor powers of V called infinite wedge space. Certain Lie algebras of infinite dimension act on F where their characters play a crucial role in representation theory and quantum computations. One can consider a generalization of Fock space namely the Fock space of level l denoted by Fl realized as the fermionic operators on V=(Cl⊗C∞)⨁(Cl∗⊗C∞∗) where C∞ is a vector space with basis wr,r∈−1/2−Z+, with the dual indexed by w−r, and Cl has basis v+,i with dual v−,i. In this case the fermionic operators are written as ψ±,ir=v±,i⊗wr. The Fock space Fl are representations of ^gl∞⊗GLlC. The former case corresponds to l=1. There are duality (decompositions) formulas of the Fock space of level l, into irreducible representations that are highest weight representations of gl∞⊗GLlC.
We define a generalization of the Fock space into F∞ and then express a duality of Howe type for pair of Lie algebras (^gl∞,gl∞) that decomposes F∞ into irreducible representations. This enables us to compute the tarce of a
vertex operator with infinitely many Casimirs. The computation uses a calculation of the trace in a work by Bloch-Okounkov on the character of the infinite
wedge representation.