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Feigin-Semikhatov duality at the critical level

Representation Theory 2026-07-02 v1 Mathematical Physics Quantum Algebra

Abstract

The Feigin-Semikhatov duality asserts that the Heisenberg cosets of the subregular WW-algebra of sln\mathfrak{sl}_n at level kk and the one of the principal WW-superalgebra of sln1\mathfrak{sl}_{n|1} at level \ell coincide when the levels satisfy the Feigin-Frenkel relation (k+n)(+n1)=1(k+n)(\ell+n-1)=1. A similar duality holds between the subregular WW-algebra of so2n+1\mathfrak{so}_{2n+1} and the principal WW-superalgebra of osp22n\mathfrak{osp}_{2|2n}. We study these dualities in the critical/large level limit. We describe the centerless subregular WW-algebra at the critical level as an orbifold of the large level limit of the principal WW-superalgebra times a lattice VOA. Our construction yields a functor between certain categories of the two involved vertex algebras. We show that in this set-up one in fact gets block-wise equivalences of categories. Studying the principal block of the large level limit of the principal WW-superalgebra then gives us the structure of the principal blocks of the subregular WW-algebras in the category of weight modules (which is much larger than the more common category of lower bounded modules).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.02155,
  title  = {Feigin-Semikhatov duality at the critical level},
  author = {Thomas Creutzig and Xuanzhong Dai and Bailin Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.02155},
  year   = {2026}
}

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