Open-string vertex algebras, tensor categories and operads

DOI10.1007/S00220-004-1059-XzbMATH Open1083.17010arXivmath/0308248OpenAlexW2040533603MaRDI QIDQ2565618FDOQ2565618

Authors: L. Kong, Yi-Zhi Huang 

Publication date: 28 September 2005

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

Abstract: We introduce notions of open-string vertex algebra, conformal open-string vertex algebra and variants of these notions. These are ``open-string-theoretic, ``noncommutative generalizations of the notions of vertex algebra and of conformal vertex algebra. Given an open-string vertex algebra, we show that there exists a vertex algebra, which we call the ``meromorphic center, inside the original algebra such that the original algebra yields a module and also an intertwining operator for the meromorphic center. This result gives us a general method for constructing open-string vertex algebras. Besides obvious examples obtained from associative algebras and vertex (super)algebras, we give a nontrivial example constructed from the minimal model of central charge c=1/2. We establish an equivalence between the associative algebras in the braided tensor category of modules for a suitable vertex operator algebra and the grading-restricted conformal open-string vertex algebras containing a vertex operator algebra isomorphic to the given vertex operator algebra. We also give a geometric and operadic formulation of the notion of grading-restricted conformal open-string vertex algebra, we prove two isomorphism theorems, and in particular, we show that such an algebra gives a projective algebra over what we call the ``Swiss-cheese partial operad.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0308248

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zbMATH Keywords

operadintertwining operatortensor categoryvertex algebrabraided category

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) Loop space machines and operads in algebraic topology (55P48)

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