W -algebra modules, free fields, and Gukov-Witten defects

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2019)159zbMATH Open1416.81195arXiv1808.08837MaRDI QIDQ2315768FDOQ2315768

Tomáš Procházka, Miroslav Rapčák

Publication date: 25 July 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the structure of modules of corner vertex operator algebras arrising at junctions of interfaces in $mathcalN=4$ SYM. In most of the paper, we concentrate on truncations of $mathcal{W}_{1+infty}$ associated to the simplest trivalent junction. First, we generalize the Miura transformation for $mathcal{W}_{N_1}$ to a general truncation $Y_{N_1,N_2,N_3}$. Secondly, we propose a simple parametrization of their generic modules, generalizing the Yangian generating function of highest weight charges. Parameters of the generating function can be identified with exponents of vertex operators in the free field realization and parameters associated to Gukov-Witten defects in the gauge theory picture. Finally, we discuss some aspect of degenerate modules. In the last section, we sketch how to glue generic modules to produce modules of more complicated algebras. Many properties of vertex operator algebras and their modules have a simple gauge theoretical interpretation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08837

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryconformal and W symmetrysupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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