Vertex Operators Research Articles

The classification of semi-conformal subalgebras of an even lattice vertex operator algebras with rank two

This work is to understand structures of even lattice vertex operator algebras by using the geometry of the varieties of their semi-conformal vectors. In this paper, we shall describe the varieties of semi-conformal vectors of a class of even lattice vertex operator algebras with rank two to characterize these vertex operator algebras. Moreover, we shall give the G-orbit decomposition of the fixed vertex operator subalgebra VL+ of a rank-two lattice vertex operator algebra VL, where G is the automorphism group preserving the conformal vector of VL+. Based on this decomposition, we classify all maximal semi-conformal subalgebras of VL+.

Vertex operators of the KP hierarchy and singular algebraic curves

Vertex operators of the KP hierarchy and singular algebraic curves

Quantum $\operatorname{SL}(2)$ and logarithmic vertex operator algebras at $(p,1)$-central charge

We provide a ribbon tensor equivalence between the representation category of small quantum \operatorname{SL}(2) , at parameter q=e^{\pi i/p} , and the representation category of the triplet vertex operator algebra at integral parameter p>1 . We provide similar quantum group equivalences for representation categories associated to the Virasoro and singlet vertex operator algebras at central charge c=1-6(p-1)^{2}/p . These results resolve a number of fundamental conjectures coming from studies of logarithmic CFTs in type A_{1} .

Characters of logarithmic vertex operator algebras and coloured invariants of torus links

We show that the characters of s l r \mathfrak {sl}_r versions of the ( 1 , p ) (1,p) singlet and the ( 1 , p ) (1,p) triplet vertex operator algebras arise as limits of appropriately coloured s l r \mathfrak {sl}_r Jones invariants of certain torus links.

A general mirror equivalence theorem for coset vertex operator algebras

A general mirror equivalence theorem for coset vertex operator algebras

Modular Virasoro vertex operator algebras with [formula omitted]

Using a Z[12]-form of Virasoro vertex operator algebra L(12,0) with central charge 12, we obtain a modular vertex operator algebra over any field F of finite characteristic different from 2. We determine the generators and classify the irreducible modules for this vertex operator algebra.

Fermionic construction of the $$\frac{{\mathbb Z}}{2}$$-graded meromorphic open-string vertex algebra and its $${\mathbb Z}_2$$-twisted module, II

Fermionic construction of the $$\frac{{\mathbb Z}}{2}$$-graded meromorphic open-string vertex algebra and its $${\mathbb Z}_2$$-twisted module, II

Skew Symplectic and Orthogonal Schur Functions

Using the vertex operator representations for symplectic and orthogonal Schur functions, we define two families of symmetric functions and show thatthey are the skew symplectic and skew orthogonal Schur polynomials defined implicitly by Koike and Terada and satisfy the general branching rules. Furthermore, we derive the Jacobi-Trudi identities and Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns for these symmetric functions. Additionally, the vertex operator method yields their Cauchy-type identities. This demonstrates that vertex operator representations serve not only as a tool for studying symmetric functions but also offers unified realizations for skew Schur functions of types A, C, and D.

Celestial gluon amplitudes from the outside in

We show that, given a two-dimensional realization of the celestial OPE in self-dual Yang-Mills, we can find a scalar source around which scattering amplitudes replicate correlation functions computed from the 2D ‘gluon’ operators in a limit where a dynamic massless scalar decouples. We derive conditions on the two-dimensional three-point correlation function so that such a source exists and give two particular examples of this construction, one in which gluons are constructed from vertex operators in the semiclassical limit of Liouville theory and another in which the soft gluons arise from generalized free fields. Finally, we identify a bulk dual to the level of the boundary Kac-Moody algebra and discuss moving beyond the decoupling limit.

Yet Another Lattice Formulation of 2D U(1) Chiral Gauge Theory via Bosonization

Abstract Recently, lattice formulations of Abelian chiral gauge theory in two dimensions have been devised on the basis of the Abelian bosonization. A salient feature of these 2D lattice formulations is that the gauge invariance is exactly preserved for anomaly-free theories and thus is completely free from the question of the gauge mode decoupling. In the present paper, we propose yet another lattice formulation sharing this desired property. A particularly unique point in our formulation is that the vertex operator of the dual scalar field, which carries the vector charge of the fermion and the “magnetic charge” in the bosonization, is represented by a “hole” excised from the lattice; this is the excision method formulated recently by Abe et al. in a somewhat different context.

Relativity of Reductive Chain Complexes of Non-abelian Simplexes

Chain total double complexes with reductive differentials for non-abelian simplexes with associated spaces are considered. It is conjectured that corresponding relative cohomology is equivalent to the coset space of vanishing functionals over non-vanishing functionals related to differentials of complexes. The conjecture is supported by the theorem for the case of spaces of correlation functions and generalized connections on vertex operator algebra bundles.

Spectral flow and localisation in AdS3 string theory

We study string theory in three-dimensional Anti-de Sitter spacetime in the path integral formalism. We derive expressions for generic spectrally-flowed near-boundary vertex operators in the Wakimoto representation, and relate their correlation functions to covering maps from the worldsheet to the target space boundary. We show that the path integral structurally reproduces correlation functions of the dual symmetric orbifold theory. By rephrasing spectral flow as the introduction of a background gauge field, we provide a path integral derivation of the localisation property of the near boundary theory. We then focus on the case of IIB string theory on AdS3 × S3 × \U0001d54b4 with k = 1 units of NS-NS flux, where the relationship between correlation functions and covering maps can be made sharp. We also comment on the relation of the k = 1 theory and twistor theory.

Characters of [formula omitted] and vertex operators

In this paper, we present a vertex operator approach to construct and compute all complex irreducible characters of the general linear group GLn(Fq). Green's theory of GLn(Fq) is recovered and enhanced under the realization of the Grothendieck ring of representations RG=⨁n≥0R(GLn(Fq)) as two isomorphic Fock spaces associated to two infinite-dimensional F-equivariant Heisenberg Lie algebras hˆF‾ˆq and hˆF‾q, where F is the Frobenius automorphism of the algebraically closed field F‾q. Under this picture, the irreducible characters are realized by the Bernstein vertex operators for Schur functions, the characteristic functions of the conjugacy classes are realized by the vertex operators for the Hall-Littlewood functions, and the character table is completely given by matrix coefficients of vertex operators of these two types. One of the features of the current approach is a simpler identification of the Fock space RG as the Hall algebra of symmetric functions via vertex operator calculus, and another is that we are able to compute in general the character table, where Green's degree formula is demonstrated as an example.

Cohomological varieties associated to vertex operator algebras

Given a vertex operator algebra V, one can attach a graded Poisson algebra called the C2-algebra R(V). The associate Poisson scheme provides an important invariant for V and has been studied by Arakawa as the associated variety. In this article, we define and examine the cohomological variety of a vertex algebra, a notion cohomologically dual to that of the associated variety, which measures the smoothness of the associated scheme at the vertex point. We study its basic properties and then construct a closed subvariety of the cohomological variety for rational affine vertex operator algebras constructed from finite dimensional simple Lie algebras. We also determine the cohomological varieties of the simple Virasoro vertex operator algebras. These examples indicate that, although the associated variety for a rational C2-cofinite vertex operator algebra is always a simple point, the cohomological variety can have as large a dimension as possible. In this paper, we study R(V) as a commutative algebra only and do not use the property of its Poisson structure, which is expected to provide more refined invariants. The goal of this work is to study the cohomological supports of modules for vertex algebras as the cohomological support varieties for finite groups and restricted Lie algebras.

Modular Invariance of (Logarithmic) Intertwining Operators

Let V be a C2\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$C_2$$\\end{document}-cofinite vertex operator algebra without nonzero elements of negative weights. We prove the conjecture that the spaces spanned by analytic extensions of pseudo-q-traces (q=e2πiτ\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$q=e^{2\\pi i\ au }$$\\end{document}) shifted by -c24\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$-\\frac{c}{24}$$\\end{document} of products of geometrically-modified (logarithmic) intertwining operators among grading-restricted generalized V-modules are invariant under modular transformations. The convergence and analytic extension result needed to formulate this conjecture and some consequences on such shifted pseudo-q-traces were proved by Fiordalisi (Logarithmic intertwining operator and genus-one correlation functions, 2015) and Fiordalisi (Commun Contemp Math 18:1650026, 2016) using the method developed in Huang (Commun Contemp Math 7:649–706, 2005). The method that we use to prove this conjecture is based on the theory of the associative algebras AN(V)\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$A^{N}(V)$$\\end{document} for N∈N\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$N\\in \\mathbb {N}$$\\end{document}, their graded modules and their bimodules introduced and studied by the author in Huang (Associative algebras and the representation theory of grading-restricted vertex algebras, 2020) and Huang (Commun Math Phys 396:1–44, 2022). This modular invariance result gives a construction of C2\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$C_2$$\\end{document}-cofinite genus-one logarithmic conformal field theories from the corresponding genus-zero logarithmic conformal field theories.

Bosonic rational conformal field theories in small genera, chiral fermionization, and symmetry/subalgebra duality

A (1 + 1)D unitary bosonic rational conformal field theory (RCFT) may be organized according to its genus, a tuple (c,C) consisting of its central charge c and a unitary modular tensor category C which describes the (2 + 1)D topological quantum field theory for which its maximally extended chiral algebra forms a holomorphic boundary condition. We establish a number of results pertaining to RCFTs in “small” genera, by which we informally mean genera with the central charge c and the number of primary operators rank(C) both not too large. We start by completely solving the modular bootstrap problem for theories with at most four primary operators. In particular, we characterize, and provide an algorithm which efficiently computes, the function spaces to which the partition function of any bosonic RCFT with rank(C)≤4 must belong. Using this result, and leveraging relationships between RCFTs and holomorphic vertex operator algebras which come from “gluing” and cosets, we rigorously enumerate all bosonic theories in 95 of the 105 genera (c,C) with c ≤ 24 and rank(C)≤4. This includes as (new) special cases the classification of chiral algebras with three primaries and c < 120/7 ∼ 17.14, and the classification of chiral algebras with four primaries and c < 62/3 ∼ 20.67. We then study two applications of our classification. First, by making use of chiral versions of bosonization and fermionization, we obtain the complete list of purely left-moving fermionic RCFTs with c < 23 as a corollary of the results of the previous paragraph. Second, using a (conjectural) concept which we call “symmetry/subalgebra duality,” we precisely relate our bosonic classification to the problem of determining certain generalized global symmetries of holomorphic vertex operator algebras.

Lax representation and Bäcklund–Darboux transformation for coupled BKP hierarchy

By using vertex operator representation of polynomial Lie algebra b∞(n), a theoretical interpretation of coupled BKP hierarchy is given, where corresponding Hirota bilinear equations are derived. Then based upon this, a wave function matrix is introduced, so that we can construct the corresponding dressing operator matrix and obtain the coupled BKP constraints and Sato equation, which allows us to define the Lax operator matrix and obtain the Lax equation. It is found that the coupled BKP hierarchy is a special case of matrix KP theory. Lastly, we present the Bäcklund–Darboux transformations for the coupled BKP equations from both fermionic and bosonic pictures.

Fermionic construction of the $$\frac{{{\mathbb {Z}}}}{2}$$-graded meromorphic open-string vertex algebra and its $${{\mathbb {Z}}}_2$$-twisted module, I

Fermionic construction of the $$\frac{{{\mathbb {Z}}}}{2}$$-graded meromorphic open-string vertex algebra and its $${{\mathbb {Z}}}_2$$-twisted module, I

Closed string vertex operators with various ghost number

We construct closed string vertex operators with various ghost numbers in addition to the conventional ones, using the Faddeev-Popov procedure for the gauge fixing of the conformal Killing group, from matter primary fields. We find that these operators give solutions to the descent equations in the framework of the BRST formalism. Similarly, we also construct solutions to the descent equations for the dilaton vertex operator with the Lorentz covariant form. Using the unintegrated vertex operator of the dilaton with the ghost number three, we obtain the correct result of the tadpole amplitude on the disk, including a non-zero contribution from a BRST exact term which comes from a conformal transformation.

Modified bosonic integrable hierarchy

In this paper, we construct a new integrable hierarchy by using charged free boson and Friedan–Martinec–Shenker (FMS) bosonization, called modified bosonic integrable hierarchy, which is an anologue of the classical (l−l′)–th modified KP hierarchy. Firstly, the representation of glˆ∞ is given by using charged free bosons. Then the modified bosonic integrable hierarchy is proposed. Next after discussing FMS bosonizations in the language of lattice vertex algebra, bilinear equations of modified bosonic integrable hierarchy are constructed by FMS bosonization, which are rewritten into Hirota bilinear equations by using Hirota derivatives. At last, we consider solutions of this modified bosonic integrable hierarchy.