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Interpolation categories for Conformal Embeddings

Quantum Algebra 2025-03-19 v1 Operator Algebras Representation Theory

Abstract

In this paper we give a diagrammatic description of the categories of modules coming from the conformal embeddings V(slN,N)V(soN21,1)\mathcal{V}(\mathfrak{sl}_N,N) \subset \mathcal{V}(\mathfrak{so}_{N^2-1},1). A small variant on this construction (morally corresponding to a conformal embedding of glN\mathfrak{gl}_N level NN into oN21\mathfrak{o}_{N^2-1} level 11) has uniform generators and relations which are rational functions in q=e2πi/4Nq = e^{2 \pi i/4N}, which allows us to construct a new continuous family of tensor categories at non-integer level which interpolate between these categories. This is the second example of such an interpolation category for families of conformal embeddings after Zhengwei Liu's interpolation categories V(slN,N±2)V(slN(N±1)/2,1)\mathcal{V}(\mathfrak{sl}_N, N\pm 2) \subset \mathcal{V}(\mathfrak{sl}_{N(N\pm 1)/2},1) which he constructed using his classification Yang-Baxter planar algebras. Our approach is different from Liu's, we build a two-color skein theory, with one strand coming from XX the image of defining representation of slN\mathfrak{sl}_N and the other strand coming from an invertible object gg in the category of local modules, and a trivalent vertex coming from a map XXgX \otimes X^* \rightarrow g. We anticipate small variations on our approach will yield interpolation categories for every infinite discrete family of conformal embeddings.

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@article{arxiv.2503.13641,
  title  = {Interpolation categories for Conformal Embeddings},
  author = {Cain Edie-Michell and Noah Snyder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.13641},
  year   = {2025}
}

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