$6A$-Algebra and its representations
Chongying Dong, Xiangyu Jiao, Nina Yu

TL;DR
This paper investigates the structure and representations of a specific vertex operator algebra called 6A-algebra, proving its uniqueness, classifying its irreducible modules, and determining its fusion rules.
Contribution
It introduces the 6A-algebra generated by two Ising vectors, proves its VOA structure is unique, and classifies its irreducible modules and fusion rules.
Findings
Uniqueness of the 6A-algebra VOA structure
Classification of irreducible modules
Determination of fusion rules
Abstract
In this paper, we study the structure and representation of a -algebra which is a vertex operator algebra generated by two Ising vectors with inner product In particular, we prove the uniqueness of the vertex operator algebra structure of this 6A-algebra, classify the irreducible modules, and determine the fusion rules.
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TopicsAlgebraic structures and combinatorial models · Advanced Topics in Algebra · Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics
-Algebra and its representations
Chongying Dong111supported by China NSF grant 11871351
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
Xiangyu Jiao222Supported by China NSF 11401213, 11571391, 11671138, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (STCSM) 18dz2271000, 16ZR1417800
Department of Mathematics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, CHINA
Nina Yu333Supported by China NSF 11601452, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities 20720170010, and Research Fund for Fujian Young Faculty JAT170006
School of Mathematical Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, CHINA
Abstract
In this paper, we study the structure and representation of a -algebra which is a vertex operator algebra generated by two Ising vectors with inner product In particular, we prove the uniqueness of the vertex operator algebra structure of this 6A-algebra, classify the irreducible modules, and determine the fusion rules.
1 Introduction
This paper is devoted to the study of the -algebra which is a vertex operator algebra of the Moonshine type generated by two Ising vectors whose inner product is
An Ising vector in a vertex operator algebra is a Virasoro vector which generates a subalgebra isomorphic to the Virasoro vertex operator algebra . The importance of the Ising vectors was first noticed in [DMZ] for understanding the structure of the moonshine vertex operator algebra [FLM]. In fact, contains a conformal subalgebra This led to the theory of framed vertex operator algebras [M1, DGH], a new construction of the moonshine vertex operator algebra [M2], a proof of Frenkel-Lepowsky-Meurman’s conjecture [FLM] that is holomorphic [D] and two weaker versions of Frenkel-Lepowsky-Meurma’s uniqueness conjecture on [DGL, LY]. Moreover for an Ising vector , one can define the Miyamoto involution which is an automorphism of .
The study of a vertex operator algebra generated by two Ising vectors initiated in [M3]. It was proved in [M3] that each axis of the Monster Griess algebra is essentially a half of an Ising vector of and is a -involution of the Monster simple group . Thus there is a one-to-one correspondence between -involutions of and Ising vectors of . It is shown in [C] that the structure of the subalgebra generated by two Ising vectors and in the algebra depends on only the conjugacy class of , and the inner product is given by the following table:
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Let be an arbitrary simple vertex operator algebra of the moonshine type. It was proved in [S] that the structure of the subalgebra generated by two Ising vectors in the Griess algebra of is uniquely determined by the inner product of the two Ising vectors. Moreover, the inner product of two Ising vectors again has 9 possibilities as in the case of the Moonshine vertex operator algebra. Certain vertex operator subalgebras of the lattice vertex operator algebra corresponding to the type of were constructed in [LYY1]. It was shown that in each of the nine cases always contains conformal vectors and of central charge such that the inner product is exactly those given in the table. The structure and representation of these coset subalgebras are studied in [LYY2] and it was shown that they are all generated by two conformal vectors of central charge It is also shown that the product of two Miyamoto involutions is in the desired conjugacy class of the Monster simple group if a coset subalgebra is actually contained in the Moonshine vertex operator algebra The existence of inside the Moonshine vertex operator algebra for the cases and is also established. Furthermore, the cases for , and are discussed in [LYY2].
But the structure and representation of has not been understood well. It turns out that this -algebra is an extension of a rational, -cofinite vertex operator algebra by two irreducible -modules and which are not simple current modules. The first goal is to establish the uniqueness of the -algebra. The main idea is to use relevant braiding matrices. The second goal is to classify irreducible modules for , we first construct 14 irreducible -modules and then prove the sum of squares of quantum dimensions of these irreducible modules is exactly the global dimension of . This implies that has exactly 14 irreducible modules. Last, we determine the fusion rules of these modules.
For simplicity we denote by .
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we review some basic notions and some well known results in the vertex operator algebra theory. In Section 3, we study the structure of the -algebra and prove the uniqueness of the vertex operator algebra structure on . In section 4, we classify the irreducible modules for . In section 5, we determine the fusion rules among irreducible -modules.
2 Preliminary
In this section, we review the basics on vertex operators algebras, the theory of quantum dimensions from [DJX], the coset realization of the discrete series of the unitary representations for the Virasoro algebra [GKO] and the braiding matrices for certain Virasoro vertex operator algebras [FFK].
2.1 Basics
Let be a vertex operator algebra. Let denote the vertex operator of for , where . We first recall some basic notions from [FLM, Z, DLM1, DLM3].
Definition 2.1**.**
A vector is called a *Virasoro vector with central charge if it satisfies *and . Then the operators , satisfy the Virasoro commutation relation
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for A Virasoro vector with central charge is called an *Ising vector *if generates the Virasoro vertex operator algebra .
Definition 2.2**.**
An automorphism of a vertex operator algebra is a linear isomorphism of satisfying and for any . We denote by the group of all automorphisms of .
For a subgroup the fixed point set has a vertex operator algebra structure.
Let be an automorphism of a vertex operator algebra of order . Denote the decomposition of into eigenspaces of as:
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where .
Definition 2.3**.**
A weak -twisted -module is a vector space with a linear map
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which satisfies the following: for all , , , ,
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where .
Definition 2.4**.**
A -twisted -module is a weak -twisted -module which carries a -grading induced by the spectrum of where is the component operator of That is, we have where . Moreover, is finite and for fixed for all small enough integers
Definition 2.5**.**
An admissible -twisted -module is a -graded weak -twisted module such that for homogeneous and
If we have the notions of weak, ordinary and admissible -modules [DLM2].
Definition 2.6**.**
A vertex operator algebra is called -rational if the admissible -twisted module category is semisimple. is called rational if is -rational.
It was proved in [DLM2] that if is rational then there are only finitely irreducible admissible -modules up to isomorphism and each irreducible admissible -module is ordinary. Let be all the irreducible modules up to isomorphism with . Then there exists for such that
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where and , . is called the conformal weight of . We denote
Let be a -module. The restricted dual of is defined by where It was proved in [FHL] that is naturally a -module such that
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for and , and . Moreover, if is irreducible, so is . A -module is said to be self dual if .
Definition 2.7**.**
A vertex operator algebra is said to be -cofinite if is finite dimensional, where
Definition 2.8**.**
A vertex operator algebra is said to be of CFT type if for negative and .
Definition 2.9**.**
Let be a vertex operator algebra and let and be three -modules. An intertwining operator of type \left(\begin{array}[]{c}M^{k}\\ M^{i}\ M^{j}\end{array}\right) is a linear map
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satisfying:
(1) for any and , for sufficiently large;
(2) for ;
(3) (Jacobi Identity) for any ,
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The space of all intertwining operators of type \left(\begin{array}[]{c}M^{k}\\ M^{i}\ M^{j}\end{array}\right) is denoted I_{V}\left(\begin{array}[]{c}M^{k}\\ M^{i}\ M^{j}\end{array}\right). Without confusion, we also denote it by Let . These integers are called the fusion rules.
The following proposition was proved in [ADL]:
Proposition 2.10**.**
Let be a vertex operator algebra and let , , be -modules among which and are irreducible. Suppose that is a vertex operator subalgebra of (with the same Virasoro element) and that and are irreducible -modules of and , respectively. Then the restriction map from to is injective. In particular,
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Let and be vertex operator algebras. Let , , be -modules, and , , be -modules. Then , , are -modules by [FHL]. The following property was given in [ADL]:
Proposition 2.11**.**
If or then
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Let and be -modules. A fusion product for the ordered pair is a pair which consists of a -module and an intertwining operator of type such that the following universal property holds: For any -module and any intertwining operator of type , there exists a unique -homomorphism from to such that It is clear from the definition that if a tensor product of and exists, it is unique up to isomorphism. In this case, we denote the fusion product by
The basic result is that the fusion product exists if is rational. Let be irreducible -modules, we shall often consider the fusion product
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where runs over the set of equivalence classes of irreducible -modules.
Definition 2.12**.**
Let be a simple vertex operator algebra. A simple -module is called a simple current if for any irreducible -module , exists and is also a simple -module.
The following proposition is from [FHL]:
Proposition 2.13**.**
Let be a vertex operator algebra and be its restricted dual. For and , we have the following equality of rational functions
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where denotes the formal power expansion of an analytic function in the domain .
The following result about bilinear form on is from [L2]:
Theorem 2.14**.**
The space of invariant bilinear forms on is isomorphic to the space
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2.2 Quantum Galois Theory
Now we recall quantum Galois theory and quantum dimensions from [DM] and [DJX]. Let be a simple vertex operator algebra and a finite and faithful group of automorphisms of . Let be the set of simple characters of . As -module, each homogeneous space of is finite dimensional, and can be decomposed into a direct sum of graded subspaces
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where is the subspace of on which acts according to the character . The following theorem is from [DM].
Theorem 2.15**.**
Suppose that is a simple vertex operator algebra and that is a finite and faithful solvable group of automorphisms of . Then the following hold:
(i) Each is nonzero;
(ii) For , each is a simple module for the -graded vertex operator algebra of the form
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where is the simple -module affording and where is a simple -module.
(iii) The map is a bijection from the set of simple -modules to the set of (inequivalent) simple -modules which are contained in .
Now we recall the notion of quantum dimension from [DJX]. Let be a vertex operator algebra of CFT type and a -module, the formal character of is defined to be
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where is the conformal weight of . The quantum dimension of over is defined as:
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The following result is from Theorem 6.3 in [DJX]:
Theorem 2.16**.**
Let be a rational and -cofinite simple vertex operator algebra. Assume is -rational and the conformal weight of any irreducible -twisted -module is positive except for itself for all . Then
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For convenience, from now on, we say a vertex operator algebra is “good” if it satisfies the following conditions: is a rational and -cofinite simple vertex operator algebra of CFT type with . Let be all the inequivalent irreducible -modules with . The corresponding conformal weights satisfy for .
The following properties of quantum dimensions are from [DJX] :
Proposition 2.17**.**
Let be a “good” vertex operator algebra. Then
(i) .
(ii) A -module is a simple current if and only if .
(iii)
Definition 2.18**.**
Let be a vertex operator algebra with finitely many inequivalent irreducible modules . The global dimension of is defined as
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Remark 2.19**.**
Let and be “good” vertex operator algebras, be a -module and be a -module. Then Lemma 2.10 of [ADJR] gives
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Let be a vertex operator algebra, recall that a simple vertex operator algebra containing is called an extension of . Now we have the following theorem [ABD, HKL, ADJR]:
Theorem 2.20**.**
Let be a “good” vertex operator algebra. Let be a simple vertex operator algebra which is an extension of . Then is also “good” and
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2.3 The unitary series of the Virasoro
VOAs
Now we recall notations about unitary minimal models of Virasoro algebra from [FFK]. The models are parameterized by a complex number , related to the central charge of the Virasoro algebra by where and Without loss of generality, we write and denote with . The label stands for a pair of positive integers and the corresponding highest weight is
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for We denote such unitary minimal models of Virasoro algebra by
Remark 2.21**.**
Use the above notation, we see that the central charge of the model corresponds to the parameter with . The highest weights for irreducible -modules are
[TABLE]
In particular, the pairs , and correspond to the highest weights 0, and respectively.
Also note that the fusion rules for irreducible -modules are as follows [W]:
Definition 2.22**.**
An ordered triple of pairs of integers is called *admissible *if , , , , , , , , and the sums , are odd.
Proposition 2.23**.**
The fusion rules between -modules are
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where is iff is an admissible triple of pairs and [math] otherwise.
2.4 Braiding matrices
Now we recall four point functions. Let be a rational and -cofinite vertex operator algebra of CFT type and . Let be four irreducible -modules. By Lemma 4.1 in [H2] we know that for
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are analytic on and respectively, and can both be analytically extended to multi-valued analytic functions on
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One can lift the multi-valued functions on to single-valued functions on the universal covering to as in [H3]. We use
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and
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to denote those analytic functions.
Let be a basis of . From [H3],
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is a linearly independent set. Fix a basis of intertwining operators. It was proved in [KZ, TK] that
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where . Then there exists such that
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(see [H1, H2]). is called the* braiding matrix*.
Let be four irreducible -modules. Fix a basis of intertwining operators of with as in [FFK]. Then there exists a matrix such that
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by (2.6).Now we recall some formulas about minimal models of Virasoro vertex operator algebra given in [FFK]. We will use these formulas to prove some properties of braiding matrices, which will be needed in the proof of uniqueness of the structure of the vertex operator algebra .
Recall that we have seen in Section 2.3. Now let , , , , Now we fix central charge , denote by . Let , , , , , be irreducible -modules, the braiding matrices of screened vertex operators have the almost factorized form (cf. (2.19) of [FFK]):
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where the nonvanishing matrix elements of -matrices are
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and the other -matrices are given by the recursive relation
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for any choice of and compatible with the fusion rules. The matrices are given by the same formulas with the replacement ,
Now we consider braiding matrix for -modules. Denote irreducible -modules and by and respectively. For convenience, we will denote by , , , . Now we are ready to give the following lemma.
Lemma 2.24**.**
, , , and .
Proof.
Using (2.8), (2.9), and Remark 2.21, to prove , it suffices to show that . Using (2.9) and (2.10) we obtain:
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with
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where , . Direct computation gives:
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and hence .
Similarly, to prove , , and , it suffices to show that , and respectively. Direct calculation gives:
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and
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Therefore , , and . ∎
2.5 GKO construction of the unitary Virasoro VOA
Let and be the generators of such that
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Let be the standard invariant bilinear form on defined by
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Let be the corresponding affine algebra of type and the fundamental weights for . Denote
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the irreducible highest weight module of -module with highest weight . It was proved in [FZ] that has a natural vertex operator algebra structure for . The Virasoro vector of is given by
[TABLE]
with central charge . Let , then is a rational vertex operator algebra and is the set of all the irreducible -modules. Moreover, the fusion rules are given by
[TABLE]
Let be the weight 1 subspace of . Then has a structure of Lie algebra isomorphic to under , . Let , , be the generators of in . Then and generate a vertex operator subalgebra isomorphic to in . It was proved in [DL] and [KR] that also gives a Virasoro vector with central charge . Furthermore, and are mutually commutative and generates a simple Virasoro vertex operator algebra . Therefore contains a vertex operator subalgebra isomorphic to . Note that both and are rational and every -module can be decomposed into irreducible -submodules. We have the following decomposition [GKO]:
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where and . This is the GKO-construction of the unitary Virasoro vertex operator algebras.
3 Structure of the -algebra
Certain coset subalgebra of associated with extended diagram is constructed in [LYY2] by removing one node from the diagram. In each case, the coset subalgebra contains some Ising vectors and the coset subalgebra is generated by two Ising vectors with inner product the same as the number given in the table in Section
- In particular, the coset subalgebra corresponding to the case was constructed, i.e., the case with inner product Let be the -algebra, that is, the vertex operator algebra generated by two Ising vectors whose -involutions generate and with inner product . The candidates for were given [M4] and it was proved in [SY] that only one of these candidates actually exists and that there is unique vertex operator algebra structure on it. Actually
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Now we recall the following results about the -algebra from [SY] .
Lemma 3.1**.**
The -algebra is rational.
Lemma 3.2**.**
All the irreducible -modules are as follows:
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Proposition 3.3**.**
Fusion rules for all the irreducible -modules are as the following. (For simplicity, we denote by , where . )
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It was proved in [LYY2] that and as a module of ,
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From here forward, we denote
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and , . Then
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Remark 3.4**.**
Since is a rational and -cofinite vertex operator algebra, it is straightforward to see that is also rational and -cofinite by [HKL, ABD].
Remark 3.5**.**
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By fusion rules for irreducible -modules and -modules in Propositions 2.23 and 3.3, and rationality of the -algebra in Lemma 3.1, we see that to study , we shall study an extension of a rational vertex operator algebra by two -irreducible modules which are not simple current modules.
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Since and by Theorem 2.14, there is a unique bilinear form on and thus . Without loss of generality, we can identify with .
Remark 3.6**.**
Let be four irreducible -modules, and fix a basis of intertwining operators. By Section 2.4, there exists such that
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3.1 Uniqueness of VOA structure on
Recall notations in (3.1). For convenience, we list fusion rules of and with from Propositions 2.23 and 3.3 in the following table.
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Note that the fusion rules , which is either [math] or . We immediately get
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We fix a basis as in Section 2.4 and [FFK], and choose an arbitrary basis of Then is a basis of .
Now let be a vertex operator algebra structure on with
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where .
The following lemma plays an important role in the proof of the uniqueness of the vertex operator algebra structure on .
Lemma 3.7**.**
\text{\lambda}_{a,b}^{c}\neq 0 if .
Claim 1*.*
.
Proof.
For any , , using skew symmetry of ([FHL]), we have
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Since is an irreducible -module, we have , . So , ∎
Claim 2*.*
, .
Proof.
Note that from Remark 3.5, has a unique invariant bilinear form with . For , we have
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That is,
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Applying previous claim, , and hence , ∎
Claim 3*.*
*, , . *
Proof.
Let . Skew symmetry of gives
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that is,
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So and are both zero or nonzero.
For any and , commutativity of in (2.2) implies
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That is,
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Using (3.4), (3.5) and previous claim, we see that either or none of is zero. For , denote Assume then we have , , so is a vertex operator subalgebra of and is a -module. Now is an extension of a ”good” vertex operator algebra, so is rational by Theorem 2.20. Note that , , . Define such that and . Then is an order 2 automorphism of with and is a -module. Apply quantum Galois theory in Theorems 2.15 and 2.16, is a simple current -module, which is a contradiction. Therefore, , and .
Similarly, when , (2.2) gives
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Since and , we see that either or both and are nonzero.
Assume then by skew symmetry of the vertex operator , we have . Now and so is a vertex operator algebra and is a -module. Also note that so is a simple current module of , which implies , i.e.,
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Recall the fusion rules listed in Section 3.1 and the results of quantum dimensions (see Proposition 2.17). For we have
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Equation (3.6) and the equations above implies
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Let and we have
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The previous system of equations holds if and only if This contradicts with that is not a simple current module of . Contradiction implies that , , are all nonzero.
Claim 4*.*
.
Fix a basis for , as in [FFK]. Consider the four point functions on Let be as defined in (3.2). Let , , we have
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In the mean time, we have
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(3.10) and (3.11) together with the linear independence of the four point functions as mentioned in Section 2.4 imply that
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Assume that . Then the above system of equations become
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Since we already have proved , , and in Claim 3, the above system of equations implies
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By Lemma 2.24, . So the third equation of the above system implies , which contradicts with the first equation of the above system. Contradiction implies . ∎
Let be a vertex operator algebra structure on . First we fix a basis for space of intertwining operators of type , as in [FFK]. Without loss of generality, we can choose a basis for space of intertwining operators of type , such that the coefficients if . Fix Now we have , a vertex operator algebra structure on such that for any , ,
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The following result will be applied to prove the uniqueness of the vertex operator algebra structure on .
Lemma 3.8**.**
Let be a vertex operator algebra and be a linear isomorphism such that . Then is a vertex operator where
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and .
Proof.
- Truncation property: For any ,
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By the truncation property of , we have for . Thus satisfies truncation property.
- Vacuum property:
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- -derivation property: For any ,
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- Commutativity: For any ,
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Thus is a vertex operator algebra. Since , we get . ∎
Theorem 3.9**.**
The vertex operator algebra structure on over is unique.
Proof.
Let be the vertex operator algebra structure as given in (3.12). Suppose is another vertex operator algebra structure on . Without loss of generality, we may assume for all . From our settings above, there exist nonzero constants , , , , where , , such that for any , , we have
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where are nonzero intertwining operators.
Claim 1)
For any , , skew symmetry of and ( [FHL] ) imply
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In the mean time, . Thus we get . Similarly, we can prove .
Claim 2) .
Note that by Remark 3.5, has a unique invariant bilinear form with . For and , we have
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That is,
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The invariant bilinear form on gives
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Using claim 1, we get . Similarly, we can prove .
*Claim 3) . *
Let , , by skew symmetry of we obtain
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that is,
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Skew symmetry of gives
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Comparing the last two identities, we get Similarly, we can prove
Let , and , commutativity of and in (2.2) gives
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The above two identities and claim 2) together give us
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Similarly, when , , (2.2) gives
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Hence by claim 3) and (3.13) we get
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Now we have
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which we denote by and respectively.
*Claim 4) * .
Fix a basis for , as in [FFK]. Now we consider the four point functions on Let be as defined in (3.2). Let , p_{1}^{2}\otimes p_{2}^{2}\in U^{2},$$w_{1}^{3}\otimes w_{2}^{3}, we have
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In the mean time, we also have
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Commutativity of and (3.14) and (3.15) together imply the following system of equations:
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Similarly, from commutativity of we have
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and
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(3.17) and (3.18) together imply
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Systems (3.16) and (3.19) together imply
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Note that from Lemma 2.24, . If then by the first and fourth identity of (3.20). Combining the first identity in (3.16), we obtain and . Combining , and the third equality of (3.16), we get . But and the second equality of (3.16) together imply that . Contradiction implies
*Claim 5) . *
Consider four point functions on . For simplicity, we denote by Applying similar argument, we obtain systems
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and
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The above two systems together give us
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Set
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Then system (3.21) implies S^{T}T=\left(\begin{array}[]{cc}1&0\\ 0&1\end{array}\right). So , which gives
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From Lemma 2.24 . Using (3.24), we get . Assume that , then and the third equation in (3.23) together imply that . So we have Note that and the third equation in (3.21) together imply that By second equation in (3.21), we have Since we have proved that , the first two equations of System (3.23) imply that . Contradiction implies .
*Claim 6) . *
Consider four point functions on . Apply similar arguments as above on and , we obtain the following systems respectively:
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(3.25) and (3.26) together gives
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By Lemma 2.24 . Assume , then the fourth equation of (3.27) imply . Using the second equations in (3.25) we get , which contradicts with the second equation of (3.27). Therefore, .
The above claims together imply
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or
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or
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Define a linear map such that
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where and . It is clear that is a linear isomorphism of . Using Lemma 3.8, gives a vertex operator algebra structure with which is isomorphic to . It is easy to verify that for all . Thus we proved the uniqueness of the vertex operator algebra structure on . ∎
4 Classification of irreducible modules
In this section, we will classify all the irreducible modules for . First we will find 14 irreducible -modules. To show they give all the irreducible modules, we shall use the theory of quantum dimensions. For simplicity, we shall use to denote the module .
4.1 Realization of irreducible -modules
Let , with , be the root lattice of type and the lattice vertex operator algebra associated with . It is well known that the irreducible -modules and are both level one representations of [DL, FLM]. In fact, and . Let be the lattice vertex operator algebra associated with the lattice , where is the orthogonal sum of 6 copies of . Then we have
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as a vertex operator algebra and
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as a module of , where . Set , then is an even lattice and we have an isomorphism
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Using (2.11) we have the following inclusions
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Thus, contains a vertex operator subalgebra isomorphic to
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By (2.11) and straightforward calculation, we get the following lemma:
Lemma 4.1**.**
We have the following decomposition:
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Thus \text{\mathcal{L}}\left(3,0\right)\otimes\mathcal{L}\left(1,0\right)\otimes\mathcal{L}\left(1,0\right)\otimes\mathcal{L}\left(1,0\right)\oplus\mathcal{L}\left(3,3\right)\otimes\mathcal{L}\left(1,1\right)\otimes\mathcal{L}\left(1,0\right)\otimes\mathcal{L}\left(1,0\right) and contain a vertex operator subalgebra isomorphic to
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which is isomorphic to from the uniqueness of discussed in Section 3.
Lemma 4.2**.**
The following list give 14 irreducible -module.
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Proof.
From Remark 3.4 and Lemma 4.1, is a rational vertex operator subalgebra of the vertex operator algebra
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So each irreducible -module is a direct sum of irreducible -modules. From Proposition 5.2 [L1] we know that is an irreducible module for . Thus we have the following irreducible -modules:
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Using (2.11) we obtain the following decomposition:
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Thus we see that are -modules. It is easy to see that are irreducible by fusion rules of irreducible -modules and -modules in Propositions 2.23 and 3.3. ∎
Remark 4.3**.**
For modules in Lemma 4.2, we denote the summands of each by from left to right. Note that , , . Thus , . Consider quantum dimensions of both sides, applying Proposition 2.17 we obtain
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that is, and hence we have
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4.2 Classification
To finish the classification of irreducible -modules, we will show that the list of -modules in Lemma 4.2 give all the irreducible inequivalent -modules. For this goal, we will compute global dimension of .
Using the tables in Section 3.1 and properties of quantum dimensions in Proposition 2.17 we get
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Denote them by and respectively.
From fusion rules in Proposition 3.3, we see that Using property of quantum dimension in Proposition 2.17, and hence we get . Combining the fusion rules for irreducible -modules in Propositions 3.3 and 2.17, one can find
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Recall that the highest weights for irreducible -modules are given in Remark 2.21 and fusion rules for these irreducible modules are given in Theorem 2.23. For convenience, we list fusion rules explicitly for some irreducible -modules which will help us determine quantum dimensions of these modules.
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Denote quantum dimensions of , by respectively. Then by Proposition 2.17, we can express quantum dimensions of all the irreducible -modules in terms of . Direction calculation gives
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From Remark 2.19 we obtain
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Note that we also have
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Since is an extension the vertex operator algebra , by Theorem 2.20,
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which implies
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Now we consider the quantum dimensions of irreducible -modules given in Lemma 4.2. By Remark 4.3, . Apply Proposition 2.17, easy calculation gives
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From the above table we find
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which exactly equals . Thus these give all the irreducible modules of .
Now we obtain the following theorem:
Theorem 4.4**.**
has exactly 14 inequivalent irreducible modules, which are listed in Lemma 4.2.
5 Fusion rules
In this Section, we shall determine all fusion rules for irreducible -modules. We denote by the fusion product of -modules and , and the fusion product for -modules and .
Theorem 5.1**.**
All fusion rules for irreducible -modules are given by
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where .
Proof.
Since is a rational vertex operator algebra, for irreducible -modules , , we have the fusion product
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where and runs over the set of equivalence classes of irreducible -modules. By case by case verification, we find that the fusion rule unless for some . Hence and the fusion product in (5.1) can be written as
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where . Since is a rational vertex operator algebra, we have
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where . Remark 4.3 imply
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Then it follows from identities (5.2) and (5.3) that
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Note that by Theorem 2.10, . The above equation implies and hence the theorem is proved. ∎
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