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Orbifolds and cosets of minimal $\mathcal{W}$-algebras

Representation Theory 2020-05-13 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Let g\mathfrak{g} be a simple, finite-dimensional Lie (super)algebra equipped with an embedding of sl2\mathfrak{s} \mathfrak{l}_2 inducing the minimal gradation on g\mathfrak{g}. The corresponding minimal W\mathcal{W}-algebra Wk(g,eθ)\mathcal{W}^k(\mathfrak{g}, e_{-\theta}) introduced by Kac and Wakimoto has strong generators in weights 1,2,3/21,2,3/2, and all operator product expansions are known explicitly. The weight one subspace generates an affine vertex (super)algebra Vk(g)V^{k'}(\mathfrak{g}^{\natural}) where gg\mathfrak{g}^{\natural} \subset \mathfrak{g} denotes the centralizer of sl2\mathfrak{s} \mathfrak{l}_2. Therefore Wk(g,eθ)\mathcal{W}^k(\mathfrak{g}, e_{-\theta}) has an action of a connected Lie group G0G^{\natural}_0 with Lie algebra g0\mathfrak{g}^{\natural}_0, where g0\mathfrak{g}^{\natural}_0 denotes the even part of g\mathfrak{g}^{\natural}. We show that for any reductive subgroup GG0G \subset G^{\natural}_0, and for any reductive Lie algebra gg\mathfrak{g}' \subset \mathfrak{g}^{\natural}, the orbifold Ok=Wk(g,eθ)G\mathcal{O}^k = \mathcal{W}^k(\mathfrak{g}, e_{-\theta})^{G} and the coset Ck=Com(V(g),Wk(g,eθ))\mathcal{C}^k = \text{Com}(V(\mathfrak{g}'),\mathcal{W}^k(\mathfrak{g}, e_{-\theta})) are strongly finitely generated for generic values of kk. Here V(g)V(\mathfrak{g}') denotes the affine vertex algebra associated to g\mathfrak{g}'. We find explicit minimal strong generating sets for Ck\mathcal{C}^k when g=g\mathfrak{g}' = \mathfrak{g}^{\natural} and g\mathfrak{g} is either sln\mathfrak{s} \mathfrak{l}_n, sp2n\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{p}_{2n}, sl(2n)\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}(2|n) for n2n\neq 2, psl(22)\mathfrak{p}\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}(2|2), or osp(14)\mathfrak{o}\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{p}(1|4). Finally, we conjecture some surprising coincidences among families of cosets Ck\mathcal{C}_k which are the simple quotients of Ck\mathcal{C}^k, and we prove several cases of our conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1610.09348,
  title  = {Orbifolds and cosets of minimal $\mathcal{W}$-algebras},
  author = {Tomoyuki Arakawa and Thomas Creutzig and Kazuya Kawasetsu and Andrew R. Linshaw},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09348},
  year   = {2020}
}

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