Interpolation categories for Conformal Embeddings
Abstract
In this paper we give a diagrammatic description of the categories of modules coming from the conformal embeddings . A small variant on this construction (morally corresponding to a conformal embedding of level into level ) has uniform generators and relations which are rational functions in , 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 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 the image of defining representation of and the other strand coming from an invertible object in the category of local modules, and a trivalent vertex coming from a map . We anticipate small variations on our approach will yield interpolation categories for every infinite discrete family of conformal embeddings.
Cite
@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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29 pages