Vertex tensor category structure on a category of Kazhdan-Lusztig (Q935609)

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Vertex tensor category structure on a category of Kazhdan-Lusztig
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    Vertex tensor category structure on a category of Kazhdan-Lusztig (English)
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    11 August 2008
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    In the paper under review the author studies the Kazhdan-Lusztig category of modules for affine Lie algebras introduced in [ \textit{D. Kazhdan} and \textit{G. Lusztig}, ``Tensor structures arising from affine Lie algebras, I--IV.'', J. Am. Math. Soc. 6, 905-947, 949--1011 (1993; Zbl 0786.17017), J. Am. Math. Soc. 7, 335--381 (1994; Zbl 0802.17007), 383--453 (1994; Zbl 0802.17008)]. The author considers this category in the context of the representation theory of vertex operator algebras of affine type. He applies the logarithmic tensor product theory [cf. \textit{Y.-Z. Huang, J. Lepowsky} and \textit{L. Zhang}, ``A logarithmic generalization of tensor product theory for modules for a vertex operator algebra'', Int. J. Math. 17, No. 8, 975--1012 (2006; Zbl 1197.17017)], and proves that the Kazhdan-Lusztig category has a natural vertex tensor category structure. He obtains a new, vertex-algebraic, construction of the natural associativity isomorphisms.
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    vertex operator algebra
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    affine Lie algebra
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    logarithmic tensor product theory
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    vertex tensor category
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    braided tensor category
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