On a family of vertex operator superalgebras

Abstract

This paper is to study vertex operator superalgebras which are strongly generated by their weight-2 and weight-32 homogeneous subspaces. Among the main results, it is proved that if such a vertex operator superalgebra V is simple, then V(2) has a canonical commutative associative algebra structure equipped with a non-degenerate symmetric associative bilinear form and V(32) is naturally a V(2)-module equipped with a V(2)-valued symmetric bilinear form and a non-degenerate (C-valued) symmetric bilinear form, satisfying a set of conditions. On the other hand, assume that A is any commutative associative algebra equipped with a non-degenerate symmetric associative bilinear form and assume that U is an A-module equipped with a symmetric A-valued bilinear form and a non-degenerate (C-valued) symmetric bilinear form, satisfying the corresponding conditions. Then we construct a Lie superalgebra L(A,U) and a simple vertex operator superalgebra LL(A,U)(ℓ,0) for every nonzero number ℓ such that LL(A,U)(ℓ,0)(2)=A and LL(A,U)(ℓ,0)(32)=U.