The modular tensor category conjecture for even symplectic fermions

Let VSFneven\mathcal{V}_{\mathcal{SF}_n^{\mathrm{even}}} be the even part of the vertex superalgebra of nn pairs of symplectic fermions, and let C0C1\mathcal{C}_0\oplus\mathcal{C}_1 be the category used in the source, with odd anticommuting generators Ei,FiE_i,F_i. The modular tensor category conjecture for even symplectic fermions. The category VSFneven-mod\mathcal{V}_{\mathcal{SF}_n^{\mathrm{even}}}\text{-}\operatorname{mod} is equivalent, as a modular tensor category, to the abstract braided monoidal category SFn\mathcal{SF}_n defined by Runkel on C0C1\mathcal{C}_0\oplus\mathcal{C}_1. As an abelian category,

VSFneven-mod=C0+C1C[E1,,En,F1,,Fn](SVect)-modSVect,\mathcal{V}_{\mathcal{SF}_n^{\mathrm{even}}}\text{-}\operatorname{mod}=\mathcal{C}_0+\mathcal{C}_1\cong \mathbb{C}[E_1,\ldots,E_n,F_1,\ldots,F_n](\operatorname{SVect})\text{-}\operatorname{mod}\oplus\operatorname{SVect},

where the polynomial algebra is generated by odd, pairwise anticommuting elements Ei,FiE_i,F_i; under this equivalence, χ3,χ4\chi_3,\chi_4 correspond to C10,C01\mathbb{C}^{1|0},\mathbb{C}^{0|1} in C1=SVect\mathcal{C}_1=\operatorname{SVect}, while χ1,χ2\chi_1,\chi_2 correspond to C10,C01\mathbb{C}^{1|0},\mathbb{C}^{0|1} in C0\mathcal{C}_0 with all Ei,FiE_i,F_i acting by zero. This conjecture proposes an explicit description of the representation theory of even symplectic fermions, including its braided tensor structure; the source states no proof or resolution, although it notes that the abelian-category part is the more accessible aspect.

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Primary source

I. Flandoli and S. Lentner, “Logarithmic conformal field theories of type B_n,=4 and symplectic fermions”, arXiv:1706.07994 (2017).

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