The affine VOSA class conjecture

Let V\mathbb{V} be a unitary self-dual VOSA of central charge c=n/2c=n/2 containing the affine Lie VOA gk\mathfrak{g}_k, and let GG be the corresponding compact simply-connected group. Let W\mathbb{W} be the canonically Z/2\mathbb{Z}/2-twisted module, and let τ ⁣:BGK(Z,4)\tau\colon BG\to K(\mathbb{Z},4) represent the generator of H4(BG;Z)ZH^4(BG;\mathbb{Z})\simeq\mathbb{Z}. The affine VOSA class conjecture. There is a class

[V]TMFGn+kτ(pt)[\mathbb{V}]\in \operatorname{TMF}^{n+k\tau}_G(\mathrm{pt})

such that

Φ([V])=η(q)n[W]KOGn((q))(pt).\Phi([\mathbb{V}])=\eta(q)^{-n}[\mathbb{W}]\in \operatorname{KO}^n_G((q))(\mathrm{pt}).

This is the precise equivariant refinement of the proposed correspondence between self-dual VOSAs and TMF\operatorname{TMF} classes; its genuinely equivariant twisted theory was not adequately developed in the source.

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Yuji Tachikawa and Mayuko Yamashita, “Anderson duality of topological modular forms and its differential-geometric manifestations”, arXiv:2305.06196 (2025).

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