On the representation theory of Virasoro nets

DOI10.1007/S00220-003-0988-0zbMATH Open1071.81079arXivmath/0306425OpenAlexW3098924200MaRDI QIDQ1418327FDOQ1418327

Sebastiano Carpi

Publication date: 19 January 2004

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss various aspects of the representation theory of the local nets of von Neumann algebras on the circle associated with positive energy representations of the Virasoro algebra (Virasoro nets). In particular we classify the local extensions of the $c=1$ Virasoro net for which the restriction of the vacuum representation to the Virasoro subnet is a direct sum of irreducible subrepresentations with finite statistical dimension (local extensions of compact type). Moreover we prove that if the central charge $c$ is in a certain subset of $(1,infty)$, including $[2,infty)$, and $hgeq(c-1)/24$, the irreducible representation with lowest weight $h$ of the corresponding Virasoro net has infinite statistical dimension. As a consequence we show that if the central charge $c$ is in the above set and satisfies $cleq25$ then the corresponding Virasoro net has no proper local extensions of compact type.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306425

zbMATH Keywords

direct irreducible-subrepresentation sumlocal compact-type extensionslocal von-Neumann-algebra sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

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