W-extended Kac representations and integrable boundary conditions in the logarithmic minimal models WLM(1,p)

TL;DR

This paper develops new integrable boundary conditions for the logarithmic minimal model WLM(1,p), revealing novel indecomposable representations and fusion rules, and connects lattice models with algebraic structures like W-algebras and quantum groups.

Contribution

It introduces W-extended Kac representations as finitely-generated modules, derives their fusion rules, and links lattice boundary conditions to algebraic frameworks such as W-algebras and quantum groups.

Findings

Constructed integrable boundary conditions leading to indecomposable modules.

Derived fusion rules consistent with conjectured Virasoro fusion rules.

Identified polynomial fusion rings and Grothendieck rings for the models.

Abstract

We construct new Yang-Baxter integrable boundary conditions in the lattice approach to the logarithmic minimal model WLM(1,p) giving rise to reducible yet indecomposable representations of rank 1 in the continuum scaling limit. We interpret these W-extended Kac representations as finitely-generated W-extended Feigin-Fuchs modules over the triplet W-algebra W(p). The W-extended fusion rules of these representations are inferred from the recently conjectured Virasoro fusion rules of the Kac representations in the underlying logarithmic minimal model LM(1,p). We also introduce the modules contragredient to the W-extended Kac modules and work out the correspondingly-extended fusion algebra. Our results are in accordance with the Kazhdan-Lusztig dual of tensor products of modules over the restricted quantum universal enveloping algebra $\bar{U}_q(sl_2)$ at $q=e^{\pi i/p}$. Finally, polynomial fusion rings isomorphic with the various fusion algebras are determined, and the corresponding Grothendieck ring of characters is identified.