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New universal vertex algebras as glueings of the basic ones

Quantum Algebra 2025-12-23 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Representation Theory

Abstract

There are three universal 22-parameter vertex algebras W\mathcal{W}_{\infty}, Wev\mathcal{W}^{\text{ev}}_{\infty}, and Wsp\mathcal{W}^{\mathfrak{sp}}_{\infty} which are freely generated of types W(2,3,4,)\mathcal{W}(2,3,4,\dots), W(2,4,6,)\mathcal{W}(2,4,6,\dots), and W(13,2,33,4,)\mathcal{W}(1^3, 2, 3^3, 4,\dots), respectively. They serve as classifying objects for vertex algebras with these generating types satisfying mild hypotheses. Their 11-parameter quotients are expected to be the building blocks of all W\mathcal{W}-algebras of classical Lie types. Furthermore, such W\mathcal{W}-algebras are expected to be organized into families that are governed by new universal 22-parameter vertex algebras, which are themselves glueings of copies of W\mathcal{W}_{\infty} in type AA (together with a Heisenberg algebra), and copies of Wev\mathcal{W}^{\text{ev}}_{\infty} and Wsp\mathcal{W}^{\mathfrak{sp}}_{\infty} in types BB, CC, and DD. We denote these universal objects by WX,S,M\mathcal{W}^{X,S,M}_{\infty}, where XX denotes the Lie type (either AA, CC, or BDBD since types BB and DD can be treated uniformly), and SS, MM are sets of positive integers that determine certain families of partitions. More precisely, for a partition P=(n0m0,n1m1,,ntmt)P = (n_0^{m_0}, n_1^{m_1},\dots, n_{t}^{m_t}) of N=i=0tnimiN = \sum_{i=0}^t n_i m_i consisting of mim_i parts of size nin_i, where n0>n1>>nt2n_0> n_1 > \cdots > n_t \geq 2, M={m0,,mt}M = \{m_0,\dots, m_t\} is the set of multiplicities, and S={d1,,dt}S = \{d_1,\dots, d_t\} is the set of height differences di+1=nini+1d_{i+1} = n_i - n_{i+1}. After introducing this general conjectural picture, we will construct the first nontrivial example Wso2:=WBD,,{2}\mathcal{W}^{\mathfrak{so}_2}_{\infty}:=\mathcal{W}^{BD, \emptyset, \{2\}}_{\infty}, which is a glueing of two copies of Wev\mathcal{W}^{\text{ev}}_{\infty}.

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@article{arxiv.2512.19508,
  title  = {New universal vertex algebras as glueings of the basic ones},
  author = {Thomas Creutzig and Vladimir Kovalchuk and Andrew R. Linshaw},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.19508},
  year   = {2025}
}

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