Feigin-Semikhatov duality at the critical level
Abstract
The Feigin-Semikhatov duality asserts that the Heisenberg cosets of the subregular -algebra of at level and the one of the principal -superalgebra of at level coincide when the levels satisfy the Feigin-Frenkel relation . A similar duality holds between the subregular -algebra of and the principal -superalgebra of . We study these dualities in the critical/large level limit. We describe the centerless subregular -algebra at the critical level as an orbifold of the large level limit of the principal -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 -superalgebra then gives us the structure of the principal blocks of the subregular -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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37 pages. Comments welcome!