$N=1$ super Virasoro tensor categories
Abstract
We show that the category of -cofinite modules for the universal super Virasoro vertex operator superalgebra at any central charge is locally finite and admits the vertex algebraic braided tensor category structure of Huang-Lepowsky-Zhang. For central charges with , we show that this tensor category is semisimple, rigid, and slightly degenerate, and we determine its fusion rules. For central charge , we show that this tensor category is rigid and that its simple modules have the same fusion rules as , in agreement with earlier fusion rule calculations of Milas. Finally, for the remaining central charges with , we show that the simple -module of lowest conformal weight is rigid and self-dual, except possibly when is a negative integer or when is the central charge of a rational superconformal minimal model. As is expected to generate the category of -cofinite -modules under fusion, rigidity of is the first key step to proving rigidity of this category for general .
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@article{arxiv.2412.18127,
title = {$N=1$ super Virasoro tensor categories},
author = {Thomas Creutzig and Robert McRae and Florencia Orosz Hunziker and Jinwei Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.18127},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Minor revisions for clarity and references updated. Final version, to appear in Communications in Mathematical Physics