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Modularity of admissible-level $\mathfrak{sl}_{3}$ minimal models with denominator $2$

Quantum Algebra 2025-08-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP Representation Theory

Abstract

We use the newly developed technique of inverse quantum hamiltonian reduction to investigate the representation theory of the simple affine vertex algebra A2(u,2)\mathsf{A}_{2}(\mathsf{u},2) associated to sl3\mathfrak{sl}_{3} at level k=3+u2\mathsf{k} = -3+\frac{\mathsf{u}}{2}, for u3\mathsf{u}\ge3 odd. Starting from the irreducible modules of the corresponding simple Bershadsky-Polyakov vertex operator algebras, we show that inverse reduction constructs all irreducible lower-bounded weight A2(u,2)\mathsf{A}_{2}(\mathsf{u},2)-modules. This proceeds by first constructing a complete set of coherent families of fully relaxed highest-weight A2(u,2)\mathsf{A}_{2}(\mathsf{u},2)-modules and then noting that the reducible members of these families degenerate to give all remaining irreducibles. Using this fully relaxed construction and the degenerations, we deduce modular S-transforms for certain natural generalised characters of these irreducibles and their spectral flows. With this modular data in hand, we verify that the (conjectural) standard Verlinde formula predicts Grothendieck fusion rules with nonnegative-integer multiplicities.

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@article{arxiv.2406.10646,
  title  = {Modularity of admissible-level $\mathfrak{sl}_{3}$ minimal models with denominator $2$},
  author = {Justine Fasquel and Christopher Raymond and David Ridout},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.10646},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

41 pages, 5 figures, comments welcome, v2: 43 pages, typo fixes and minor changes based on reviewer feedback. To appear in Communications in Mathematical Physics