Structure of Virasoro tensor categories at central charge $13-6p-6p^{-1}$ for integers $p > 1$
Abstract
Let be the category of finite-length central-charge- modules for the Virasoro Lie algebra whose composition factors are irreducible quotients of reducible Verma modules. Recently, it has been shown that admits vertex algebraic tensor category structure for any . Here, we determine the structure of this tensor category when for an integer . For such , we prove that is rigid, and we construct projective covers of irreducible modules in a natural tensor subcategory . We then compute all tensor products involving irreducible modules and their projective covers. Using these tensor product formulas, we show that has a semisimplification which, as an abelian category, is the Deligne product of two tensor subcategories that are tensor equivalent to the Kazhdan-Lusztig categories for affine at levels . Next, as a straightforward consequence of the braided tensor category structure on together with the theory of vertex operator algebra extensions, we rederive known results for triplet vertex operator algebras , including rigidity, fusion rules, and construction of projective covers. Finally, we prove a recent conjecture of Negron that is braided tensor equivalent to the -equivariantization of the category of -modules.
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@article{arxiv.2011.02170,
title = {Structure of Virasoro tensor categories at central charge $13-6p-6p^{-1}$ for integers $p > 1$},
author = {Robert McRae and Jinwei Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.02170},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
56 pages, final version incorporating referee's comments