Classification of sl₃ relations in the Witt group of nondegenerate braided fusion categories

DOI10.1007/S00220-017-2831-ZMaRDI QIDQ2362799zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Schopieray

Publication date 14 July 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03155

zbMATH Keywords

algebras in fusion categoriesfusion categoriesunitary Witt groupWitt group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

Abstract: The Witt group of nondegenerate braided fusion categories $mathcalW$ contains a subgroup $mathcal{W}_{e}xtun$ consisting of Witt equivalence classes of pseudo-unitary nondegenerate braided fusion categories. For each finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra $mathfrakg$ and positive integer $k$ there exists a pseudo-unitary category $mathcalC(mathfrakg,k)$ consisting of highest weight integerable $hatg$-modules of level $k$ where $hatmathfrakg$ is the corresponding affine Lie algebra. Relations between the classes $[mathcalC(mathfrak{sl}_2,k)]$, $kgeq1$ have been completely described in the work of Davydov, Nikshych, and Ostrik. Here we give a complete classification of relations between the classes $[mathcalC(mathfrak{sl}_3,k)]$, $kgeq1$ with a view toward extending these methods to arbitrary simple finite dimensional Lie algebras $mathfrakg$ and positive integer levels $k$.

Review text

The Witt group in the title of this paper is generated by equivalence classes of nondegenerate braided fusion categories, with a relation \([\mathcal{C}]=[\mathcal{D}]\) if \(\mathcal{C}\) and \(\mathcal{D}\) become equivalent after taking Deligne products with Drinfeld centers, that is, \(\mathcal{C}\boxtimes Z(\mathcal{A}_1)\cong \mathcal{D}\boxtimes Z(\mathcal{A}_2)\), where \(Z(\mathcal{A}_i)\) are Drinfeld centers of fusion categories \(\mathcal{A}_i\). The product in the Witt group is given by the Deligne product of fusion categories, and inverses are obtained by reversing the braiding of a braided fusion category. Important examples \(\mathcal{C}(\mathfrak{g}, k)\) of (modular) braided fusion categories arise from representations of affine Lie algebras \(\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}\) at non-negative integer levels \(k\) ([\textit{M. Finkelberg}, Geom. Funct. Anal. 6, No. 2, 249--267 (1996; Zbl 0860.17040); erratum ibid. 23, No. 2, 810--811 (2013)], [\textit{Y.-Z. Huang} and \textit{J. Lepowsky}, Duke Math. J. 99, No. 1, 113--134 (1999; Zbl 0953.17016)]), or equivalently, from representations of quantum groups \(U_q(\mathfrak{g})\) at suitable roots of unity \(q\) ([\textit{H. H. Andersen} and \textit{J. Paradowski}, Commun. Math. Phys. 169, No. 3, 563--588 (1995; Zbl 0827.17010)]). In the paper under review, the author finds all Witt group relations between the equivalence classes \([\mathcal{C}(\mathfrak{sl}_3, k)]\), as well as all relations involving only the classes \([\mathcal{C}(\mathfrak{sl}_3, k)]\) and \([\mathcal{C}(\mathfrak{sl}_2, k)]\) (relations involving only the classes \([\mathcal{C}(\mathfrak{sl}_2, k)]\) were classified in [\textit{A. Davydov} et al., Sel. Math., New Ser. 19, No. 1, 237--269 (2013; Zbl 1345.18005)]). The classification of Witt group relations is based on finding a category in each equivalence class \([\mathcal{C}(\mathfrak{sl}_3, k)]\) that has no non-trivial fusion subcategories or non-trivial connected étale algebras. For most cases where \(3\,|\,k\), the author shows that the braided tensor category of dyslectic modules for a certain maximal connected étale algebra in \(\mathcal{C}(\mathfrak{sl}_3, k)\) can be used; for the remaining cases, he uses a result of \textit{T. Gannon} [Commun. Math. Phys. 161, No. 2, 233--263 (1994; Zbl 0806.17031)] that additional non-trivial connected étale algebras occur in the categories \(\mathcal{C}(\mathfrak{sl}_3,k)\) only for the levels \(k=5, 9, 21\). The paper concludes with an overview of the obstructions to completing a similar classification of Witt group relations between classes \([\mathcal{C}(\mathfrak{g},k)]\) for higher-rank \(\mathfrak{g}\).

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