Friedan's reconstruction conjecture for self-dual vertex operator algebras

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Let UU and VV be self-dual VOAs of CFT type, and let ZU,g\mathcal{Z}_{U,g} and ZV,g\mathcal{Z}_{V,g} denote their genus-gg partition functions.

Reconstruction conjecture. If

ZU,g=ZV,g\mathcal{Z}_{U,g}=\mathcal{Z}_{V,g}

for every gg, then UU and VV are isomorphic.

This is the VOA analogue of Friedan's proposal that a field theory is determined by its restriction to closed surfaces. The source gives no resolution of the conjecture.

References

Primary source

Sebastiano Carpi and Giulio Codogni, “Vertex operator algebras, partition functions and Teichmüller modular forms”, arXiv:2605.26972 (2026).

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