Twisted modules and G-equivariantization in logarithmic conformal field theory

DOI10.1007/S00220-020-03882-2MaRDI QIDQ2021634zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert McRae

Publication date 27 April 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13226

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of logic in associative algebras (16B70) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Spectral sequences, hypercohomology (18G40) Fusion categories, modular tensor categories, modular functors (18M20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: A two-dimensional chiral conformal field theory can be viewed mathematically as the representation theory of its chiral algebra, a vertex operator algebra. Vertex operator algebras are especially well suited for studying logarithmic conformal field theory (in which correlation functions have logarithmic singularities arising from non-semisimple modules for the chiral algebra) because of the logarithmic tensor category theory of Huang, Lepowsky, and Zhang. In this paper, we study not-necessarily-semisimple or rigid braided tensor categories $mathcalC$ of modules for the fixed-point vertex operator subalgebra $V^G$ of a vertex operator (super)algebra $V$ with finite automorphism group $G$. The main results are that every $V^G$-module in $mathcalC$ with a unital and associative $V$-action is a direct sum of $g$-twisted $V$-modules for possibly several $ginG$, that the category of all such twisted $V$-modules is a braided $G$-crossed (super)category, and that the $G$-equivariantization of this braided $G$-crossed (super)category is braided tensor equivalent to the original category $mathcalC$ of $V^G$-modules. This generalizes results of Kirillov and M"{u}ger proved using rigidity and semisimplicity. We also apply the main results to the orbifold rationality problem: whether $V^G$ is strongly rational if $V$ is strongly rational. We show that $V^G$ is indeed strongly rational if $V$ is strongly rational, $G$ is any finite automorphism group, and $V^G$ is $C_2$-cofinite.

Review text

From a mathematical standpoint, a two-dimensional chiral conformal field theory is to be viewed as the representation theory of its chiral algebra, a vertex operator algebra. Vertex operator algebras are appropriate in study of logarithmic conformal field theory, in which correlation functions are of logarithmic singularities arising from non-semisimple modules for the chiral algebra, beholden to the logarithmic tensor category theory [\textit{Y.-Z. Huang} et al., in: Conformal field theories and tensor categories. Proceedings of a workshop held at Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Beijing, China, June 13--17, 2011. Heidelberg: Springer. 169--248 (2014; Zbl 1345.81112)]. This paper is concerned with not-necessarily-semisimple or rigid braided tensor categories \(\mathcal{C}\)\ of modules for the fixed-point vertex operator subalgebra \(V^{G}\) of a vertex operator (super)algebra \(V\) with finite automorphism group \(G\). The principal results in the paper, which are generalizations of the corresponding results of [\textit{A. Kirillov jun.}, Commun. Math. Phys. 229, No. 2, 309--335 (2002; Zbl 1073.17011); ``Modular categories and orbifold models. II, Preprint, \url{arXiv:math/0110221}; ``On $G$-equivariant modular categories, Preprint, \url{arXiv:math/0401119}; \textit{M. Müger}, J. Algebra 277, No. 1, 256--281 (2004; Zbl 1052.18004); Commun. Math. Phys. 260, No. 3, 727--762 (2005; Zbl 1160.81454)] established by exploiting rigidity and semisimplicity, are as follows. \begin{itemize} \item[1.] Every \(V^{G}\)-module in \(\mathcal{C}\)\ with a unital and associative \(V\)-action is a direct sum of \(g\)-twisted \(V\)-modules for possibly several \(g\in G\); \item[2.] The category of all such twisted \(V\)-modules is a braided \(G\)-crossed (super)category; \item[3.] The \(G\)-equivariantization of this braided \(G\)-crossed (super)category is braided tensor equivalent to the original category \(\mathcal{C}\)\ of \(V^{G}\)-modules. \end{itemize} The author applies these results to the orbifold rationality problem asking whether \(V^{G}\)\ is strongly rational if \(V\)\ is strongly rational. It is shown that \(V^{G}\) is indeed strongly rational if \(V\) is strongly rational, \(G\) is any finite automorphism group, and \(V^{G}\) is \(C_{2}\)-cofinite.

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