A realisation of the Bershadsky-Polyakov algebras and their relaxed modules (Q829953)

This paper studies the Beshadsky-Polyakov algebras and a class of modules called relaxed (highest-weight) modules. These modules have proved crucial to understanding conjectured Verlinde formulae and finding module categories consistent with requirements coming from physics for the case of affine sl2 at non-integral admissible levels. The paper starts by constructing the Beshadsky-Polyakov algebras from tensor products of Zamolodchikov vertex algebras with certain lattice vertex algebras using tools previously developed by the first author, Drazen Adamovic. This construction of the algebra then also provides a construction of relaxed (highest-weight modules) and characters of these modules are computed using tools developed by the latter two authors, Kazuya Kawasetsu and David Ridout. The paper concludes with a number of (ir)reducibility criteria for these relaxed (highest-weight) modules.