REGULAR REPRESENTATIONS OF VERTEX OPERATOR ALGEBRAS

DOI10.1142/S0219199702000804MaRDI QIDQ4796551zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Haisheng Li

Publication date 12 November 2003

Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9908108

zbMATH Keywords

intertwining operatorsregular representationstensor productsvertex operator algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) 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)

Abstract: In this paper, given a module $W$ for a vertex operator algebra $V$ and a nonzero complex number $z$ we construct a canonical (weak) $VotimesV$-module ${calD}_{P(z)}(W)$ (a subspace of $W^{\ast }$ depending on $z$). We prove that for $V$-modules $W,W_1$ and $W_2$, a $P(z)$-intertwining map of type $W^{\prime }choose{W}_1{W}_2$ ([H3], [HL0-3]) exactly amounts to a $VotimesV$-homomorphism from $W_{1}otimes{W}_2$ into ${calD}_{P(z)}(W)$. Using Huang and Lepowsky's one-to-one linear correspondence between the space of intertwining operators and the space of $P(z)$-intertwining maps of the same type we obtain a canonical linear isomorphism from the space ${calV}_{W_1{W}_2}^{W^{\prime }}$ of intertwining operators of the indicated type to $Ho{m}_{VotimesV}(W_{1}otimes{W}_2,{calD}_{P(z)}(W))$. In the case that $W=V$, we obtain a decomposition of Peter-Weyl type for ${calD}_{P(z)}(V)$, which are what we call the regular representations of $V$.

Review text

In the paper under review the author starts with a systematic study of regular representations of vertex operator algebras. This new concept is very useful for studying tensor product theory for vertex operator algebras. In this paper, for a vertex operator algebra \(V\) and a \(V\)-module \(W\), the author constructs, out of the dual space \(W^{*}\), a family of weak \(V\otimes V\)-modules \(\mathcal{D} _{P(z)} (W)\) with a nonzero complex number \(z\) as the parameter. He proves that the fusion rule of type \( \binom{ W'}{ W_1 \;W_2} \) is equal to \(\dim \text{Hom} _{ V \otimes V} ( W_1 \otimes W_2, \mathcal{D} _{P(z)} (W))\) where \(W, W_1\) and \(W_2\) are \(V\)-modules. The author also constructs the functor \(\mathcal{F} _{P(z)}\) from the category of \(V\)-modules to the category of weak \(V \otimes V\)-modules which can be interpreted as a right adjoint of the Huang-Lepowsky's \(P(z)\)-tensor product functor [cf. \textit{Y.-Z. Huang} and \textit{J. Lepowsky}, Sel. Math., New Ser. 1, 699-756 (1995; Zbl 0854.17032), 757-876 (1995; Zbl 0854.17033), J. Pure Appl. Algebra 100, 141-171 (1995; Zbl 0841.17014)].

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