On classification of conformal vectors in vertex operator algebra and the vertex algebra automorphism group

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2019.10.021MaRDI QIDQ2285307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yuto Moriwaki

Publication date 8 January 2020

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04899

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryconformal vectorsmonster groupmoonshine modulevertex algebrasvertex operator algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08)

Abstract: Herein we study conformal vectors of a Z-graded vertex algebra of (strong) CFT type. We prove that the full vertex algebra automorphism group transitively acts on the set of the conformal vectors of strong CFT type if the vertex algebra is simple. The statement is equivalent to the uniqueness of self-dual vertex operator algebra structures of a simple vertex algebra. As an application, we show that the full vertex algebra automorphism group of a simple vertex operator algebra of strong CFT type uniquely decomposes into the product of certain two subgroups and the vertex operator algebra automorphism group. Furthermore, we prove that the full vertex algebra automorphism group of the moonshine module over the field of real numbers is the Monster.

Review text

The author studies the action of the automorphism group \(\mathrm{Aut}(V)\) of a vertex algebra \(V\) on the set of conformal vectors and discusses a related decomposition of the automorphism group of \(V\). Let \(V\) be a vertex algebra. A conformal vector is a vector \(\omega\in V\) such that \((V,\omega)\) is a conformal vertex algebra, i.e. whose modes endow \(V\) with a representation of the Virasoro algebra in a certain way (in this text it is assumed that the corresponding grading of \(V\) is a \(\mathbb{Z}\)-grading). The author is particularly interested in the situation where \((V,\omega)\) is a self-contragredient vertex operator algebra of CFT-type (called strong CFT-type here). The main result of the text is that if the vertex algebra \(V\) is simple, then the automorphism group \(\Aut(V)\) acts transitively on the set of conformal vectors that yield self-contragredient vertex operator algebras of CFT-type. In other words, a simple vertex algebra has at most one self-contragredient vertex operator algebra structure of CFT-type up to isomorphism. As an application, the author shows that the vertex algebra automorphism group \(\mathrm{Aut}(V)\) of a simple, self-contragredient vertex operator algebra \((V,\omega)\) of CFT-type decomposes into the product of three subgroups, one of which is the vertex operator algebra automorphism group \(\mathrm{Aut}_\omega(V)=\{g\in\Aut(V)\,|\,g\omega=\omega\}\). Finally, the author studies situations in which \(\Aut(V)\) coincides with \(\Aut_\omega(V)\). This is true for many known classes of vertex operator algebras such as lattice vertex operator algebras. In particular, it is shown that the automorphism group of the Moonshine module \(V^\natural\) regarded as a vertex algebra over \(\mathbb{R}\) is the Monster group. (So far, this was only known for the vertex operator algebra automorphism group.)

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