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This is the first part in a series of papers developing a tensor product theory for modules for a vertex operator algebra. The goal of this theory is to construct a ``vertex tensor category'' structure on the category of modules for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Yi-Zhi Huang , James Lepowsky

This is the second part in a series of papers in which we introduce and develop a natural, general tensor category theory for suitable module categories for a vertex (operator) algebra. In this paper (Part II), we develop logarithmic formal…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-05-14 Yi-Zhi Huang , James Lepowsky , Lin Zhang

We show that there is a braided tensor category structure on the category of $C_1$-cofinite modules for the (universal or simple) Virasoro vertex operator algebras of arbitrary central charge. In the generic case of central charge…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Thomas Creutzig , Cuipo Jiang , Florencia Orosz Hunziker , David Ridout , Jinwei Yang

This is the eighth part in a series of papers in which we introduce and develop a natural, general tensor category theory for suitable module categories for a vertex (operator) algebra. In this paper (Part VIII), we construct the braided…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-05-14 Yi-Zhi Huang , James Lepowsky , Lin Zhang

We derive certain systems of differential equations for matrix elements of products and iterates of logarithmic intertwining operators among strongly graded generalized modules for a strongly graded conformal vertex algebra under suitable…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Jinwei Yang

Let V be a simple vertex operator algebra satisfying the following conditions: (i) The homogeneous subspaces of V of weights less than 0 are 0, the homogeneous subspace of V of weight 0 is spanned by the vacuum and V' is isomorphic to V as…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Yi-Zhi Huang

This is the third part in a series of papers developing a tensor product theory for modules for a vertex operator algebra. The goal of this theory is to construct a ``vertex tensor category'' structure on the category of modules for a…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Yi-Zhi Huang , James Lepowsky

Let $\mathcal{O}_c$ be the category of finite-length central-charge-$c$ modules for the Virasoro Lie algebra whose composition factors are irreducible quotients of reducible Verma modules. Recently, it has been shown that $\mathcal{O}_c$…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Robert McRae , Jinwei Yang

A two-dimensional chiral conformal field theory can be viewed mathematically as the representation theory of its chiral algebra, a vertex operator algebra. Vertex operator algebras are especially well suited for studying logarithmic…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Robert McRae

In the references [HL1]--[HL5] and [H1], a theory of tensor products of modules for a vertex operator algebra is being developed. To use this theory, one first has to verify that the vertex operator algebra satisfies certain conditions. We…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Yi-Zhi Huang

Let $V$ be an $\mathbb{N}$-graded, simple, self-contragredient, $C_2$-cofinite vertex operator algebra. We show that if the $S$-transformation of the character of $V$ is a linear combination of characters of $V$-modules, then the category…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Robert McRae

We show that the category of $C_1$-cofinite modules for the universal $N=1$ super Virasoro vertex operator superalgebra $\mathcal{S}(c,0)$ at any central charge $c$ is locally finite and admits the vertex algebraic braided tensor category…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Thomas Creutzig , Robert McRae , Florencia Orosz Hunziker , Jinwei Yang

We study properties of a C_2-cofinite vertex operator algebra of CFT type. If it is also rational and V'\cong V, then the rigidity of the tensor category of modules has been proved by Huang. When we treat an irrational C_2-cofinite VOA, the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2010-07-28 Masahiko Miyamoto

Let $A$ be a commutative algebra in a braided monoidal category $\mathcal{C}$; e.g., $A$ could be an extension of a vertex operator algebra (VOA) $V$ in a category $\mathcal{C}$ of $V$-modules. We study when the category $\mathcal{C}_A$ of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Thomas Creutzig , Robert McRae , Kenichi Shimizu , Harshit Yadav

This is the seventh part in a series of papers in which we introduce and develop a natural, general tensor category theory for suitable module categories for a vertex (operator) algebra. In this paper (Part VII), we give sufficient…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-05-14 Yi-Zhi Huang , James Lepowsky , Lin Zhang

Suppose $V^G$ is the fixed-point vertex operator subalgebra of a compact group $G$ acting on a simple abelian intertwining algebra $V$. We show that if all irreducible $V^G$-modules contained in $V$ live in some braided tensor category of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Robert McRae

Using the tensor category theory developed by Lepowsky, Zhang and the second author, we construct a braided tensor category structure with a twist on a semisimple category of modules for an affine Lie algebra at an admissible level. We…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Thomas Creutzig , Yi-Zhi Huang , Jinwei Yang

Huang, Lepowsky and Zhang have developed a module theory for vertex operator algebras that endows suitably chosen module categories with the structure of braided monoidal categories. Included in the theory is a functor which assigns to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Robert Allen , Simon Lentner , Christoph Schweigert , Simon Wood

We show that direct limit completions of vertex tensor categories inherit vertex and braided tensor category structures, under conditions that hold for example for all known Virasoro and affine Lie algebra tensor categories. A consequence…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Thomas Creutzig , Robert McRae , Jinwei Yang

We discuss a recent proof by the author of a general version of the Verlinde conjecture in the framework of vertex operator algebras and the application of this result to the construction of modular tensor tensor category structure on the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yi-Zhi Huang