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We describe a complex of Wakimoto-type Fock space modules for the affine Kac-Moody algebra\(\widehat{sl}(n)\). The intertwining operators that build the complex are obtained from contour integrals of so-called screening operators. We show that a quantum group structure underlies the algebra of screening operators. This observation greatly facilitates the explicit determination of the intertwiners. We conjecture that the complex provides a resolution of an irreducible highest weight module in terms of Fock spaces.
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Bouwknegt, P., McCarthy, J. & Pilch, K. Quantum group structure in the Fock space resolutions of\(\widehat{sl}(n)\) representations. Commun.Math. Phys. 131, 125–155 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02097682
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