REGULAR REPRESENTATIONS OF VERTEX OPERATOR ALGEBRAS (Q4796551)

In the paper under review the author starts with a systematic study of regular representations of vertex operator algebras. This new concept is very useful for studying tensor product theory for vertex operator algebras. In this paper, for a vertex operator algebra \(V\) and a \(V\)-module \(W\), the author constructs, out of the dual space \(W^{*}\), a family of weak \(V\otimes V\)-modules \(\mathcal{D} _{P(z)} (W)\) with a nonzero complex number \(z\) as the parameter. He proves that the fusion rule of type \( \binom{ W'}{ W_1 \;W_2} \) is equal to \(\dim \text{Hom} _{ V \otimes V} ( W_1 \otimes W_2, \mathcal{D} _{P(z)} (W))\) where \(W, W_1\) and \(W_2\) are \(V\)-modules. The author also constructs the functor \(\mathcal{F} _{P(z)}\) from the category of \(V\)-modules to the category of weak \(V \otimes V\)-modules which can be interpreted as a right adjoint of the Huang-Lepowsky's \(P(z)\)-tensor product functor [cf. \textit{Y.-Z. Huang} and \textit{J. Lepowsky}, Sel. Math., New Ser. 1, 699-756 (1995; Zbl 0854.17032), 757-876 (1995; Zbl 0854.17033), J. Pure Appl. Algebra 100, 141-171 (1995; Zbl 0841.17014)].