Conformal field theories, representations and lattice constructions (Q1924085)

The authors provide the details omitted from their earlier work [Phys. Lett. B 236, 165-172 (1990)]. In this and their earlier work, the authors generalized the construction of the Monster moonshine vertex operator algebras by \textit{I. Frenkel, J. Lepowsky} and \textit{A. Meurman} [Vertex operator algebras and the Monster, New York, Academic Press (1988; Zbl 0674.17001)]. In their works, they use the skew symmetry of vertex operators to define intertwining operators of modules of a vertex operator algebra. Then they define certain adjoint intertwining operators by using certain Hermitian forms. Furthermore, such intertwining operators are proved to give new vertex operator algebras from a vertex operator algebra associated with an integral lattice. The ``triality'' (introduced by Frenkel, Lepowsky and Meurman) was deduced from certain properties of their constructed intertwining operators.