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Universal $2$-parameter $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric $\mathcal{W}_{\infty}$-algebra

Representation Theory 2026-04-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

The universal 22-parameter vertex algebra W\mathcal{W}_{\infty} of type W(2,3,)\mathcal{W}(2,3,\dots) is a classifying object for vertex algebras of type W(2,3,,N)\mathcal{W}(2,3,\dots,N) for some NN; under mild hypotheses, all such vertex algebras arise as quotients of W\mathcal{W}_{\infty}. In 2017, Gaiotto and Rap\v{c}\'ak introduced a family of such vertex algebras called YY-algebras, and conjectured that they fall into groups of three that are mutually isomorphic. This is a common generalization of both Feigin-Frenkel duality and the coset realization of principal W\mathcal{W}-algebras in type AA, and was proven in 2021 for the simple YY-algebras (i.e., one label is zero) by the first and third authors. In this paper, we extend this entire story to the N=2\mathcal{N}=2 superconformal setting. First, we prove the 2013 conjecture of Gaberdiel and Candu that there exists a universal 22-parameter vertex algebra WN=2\mathcal{W}^{\mathcal{N}=2}_{\infty} which is an extension of the N=2\mathcal{N}=2 superconformal algebra, and has four additional generators in weights i,i+12,i+12,i+1i, i + \frac{1}{2}, i + \frac{1}{2}, i+1, for each integer i>1i > 1. This admits many 11-parameter quotients which we call N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supersymmetric YY-algebras, and we prove the dualities among these algebras which were conjectured in 2018 by Prochazka and Rap\v{c}\'ak. A special case is the coset realization of the principal W\mathcal{W}-algebra Wk(sln+1n)\mathcal{W}^k(\mathfrak{sl}_{n+1|n}) which was conjectured in 1992 by Ito. As a corollary, we obtain the strong rationality of Wk(sln+1n)\mathcal{W}_k(\mathfrak{sl}_{n+1|n}) for k=1+1n+a+1k = -1 + \frac{1}{n+a+1} for all positive integers n,an,a, and we describe its module category. This generalizes Adamovi\'c's 1999 result on N=2\mathcal{N}=2 minimal models, which is the case n=1n=1.

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@article{arxiv.2604.20750,
  title  = {Universal $2$-parameter $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric $\mathcal{W}_{\infty}$-algebra},
  author = {Thomas Creutzig and Volodymyr Kovalchuk and Andrew R. Linshaw and Arim Song and Uhi Rinn Suh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.20750},
  year   = {2026}
}

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69 pages

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