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Nappi-Witten vertex operator algebra via inverse Quantum Hamiltonian Reduction

Quantum Algebra 2025-03-18 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Representation Theory

Abstract

The representation theory of the Nappi-Witten VOA was initiated in arXiv:1104.3921 and arXiv:2011.14453. In this paper we use the technique of inverse quantum hamiltonian reduction to investigate the representation theory of the Nappi-Witten VOA V1(h4) V^1(\mathfrak h_4). We first prove that the quantum hamiltonian reduction of V1(h4) V^1(\mathfrak h_4) is the Heisenberg-Virasoro VOA LHVirL^{HVir} of level zero investigated in arXiv:math/0201314 and arXiv:1405.1707. We invert the quantum hamiltonian reduction in this case and prove that V1(h4)V^1(\mathfrak h_4) is realized as a vertex subalgebra of LHVirΠL^{HVir} \otimes \Pi, where Π\Pi is a certain lattice-like vertex algebra. Using such an approach we shall realize all relaxed highest weight modules which were classified in arXiv:2011.14453. We show that every relaxed highest weight module, whose top components is neither highest nor lowest weight h4\mathfrak h_4-module, has the form M1Π1(λ)M_1 \otimes \Pi_{1} (\lambda) where M1M_1 is an irreducible, highest weight LHVirL^{HVir}-module and Π1(λ)\Pi_{1} (\lambda) is an irreducible weight Π\Pi-module. Using the fusion rules for LHVirL^{HVir}-modules and the previously developed methods of constructing logarithmic modules we are able to construct a family of logarithmic V1(h4)V^1(\mathfrak h_4)-modules. The Loewy diagrams of these logarithmic modules are completely analogous to the Loewy diagrams of projective modules of weight Lk(sl(2))L_k(\mathfrak{sl}(2))-modules, so we expect that our logarithmic modules are also projective in a certain category of weight V1(h4) V^1(\mathfrak h_4)-modules.

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@article{arxiv.2409.02093,
  title  = {Nappi-Witten vertex operator algebra via inverse Quantum Hamiltonian Reduction},
  author = {Drazen Adamovic and Andrei Babichenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02093},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

22 pages, minor revision. To appear in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics