Irreducibility conjecture for Wakimoto modules with Whittaker Heisenberg factors

Let g\frak{g} be the Lie algebra under consideration, let h\frak{h} be its Cartan subalgebra, and let u u be a non-critical invariant bilinear form with corresponding affine level u u. Let WgW_{\frak{g}} be the Weyl vertex algebra associated with the negative nilpotent part of g\frak{g}, and let N1(λ)N_1(\bm{\lambda}) be a Whittaker, non-highest-weight module for the Heisenberg vertex algebra πk+h\pi^{k+h^{\vee}}. Via the Frenkel–Feigin homomorphism, regard WgN1(λ)W_{\frak{g}}\otimes N_1(\bm{\lambda}) as a module over the universal affine vertex algebra Vκ(g)V^{\kappa}(\frak{g}). The Wakimoto irreducibility conjecture. If κ\kappa is non-critical, then

WgN1(λ)W_{\frak{g}} \otimes N_1(\bm{\lambda})

is an irreducible Vκ(g)V^{\kappa}(\frak{g})-module. This extends the known generic highest-weight irreducibility results to non-highest-weight Whittaker modules; determining irreducibility at non-critical levels is the main question proposed here, while the critical-level analogues are connected with the Kac–Kazhdan conjecture.

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Dražen Adamović and Veronika Pedić Tomić, “Irreducibility of Certain sl_2-Modules of Wakimoto Type”, arXiv:2512.02718 (2026).

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