Equivariant K-Theory, Generalized Symmetric Products, and Twisted Heisenberg Algebra

Abstract:

 For a space X acted on by a finite group Γ, the product space X ⁿ affords a natural action of the wreath product Γ _n =Γⁿ⋊S _n . The direct sum of equivariant K-groups were shown earlier by the author to carry several interesting algebraic structures. In this paper we study the K-groups of Γ _n -equivariant Clifford supermodules on X ⁿ. We show that is a Hopf algebra and it is isomorphic to the Fock space of a twisted Heisenberg algebra. Twisted vertex operators make a natural appearance. The algebraic structures on ℱ⁻ _Γ(X), when Γ is trivial and X is a point, specialize to those on a ring of symmetric functions with the Schur Q-functions as a linear basis. As a by-product, we present a novel construction of K-theory operations using the spin representations of the hyperoctahedral groups.