Skip to main content
eScholarship
Open Access Publications from the University of California

UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz Electronic Theses and Dissertations bannerUC Santa Cruz

Fusion rules for V_{l_2}^{s_4}

Abstract

This dissertation determines the fusion rules for the fixed-point vertex operator algebra 𝑉 𝑆4 𝐿2 , where 𝐿2 denotes the rank-one even lattice satisfying (𝛼, 𝛼) = 2. The main idea is to identify certain irreducible 𝑉 + β„€πœ -modules as direct sums of irreducible 𝑉 𝑆4 𝐿2 -modules. These identifications allow us to compute the relevant entries of the 𝑆-matrix for 𝑉 𝑆4 𝐿2 . Applying the Verlinde formula, we then obtain the complete fusion rules for 𝑉 𝑆4 𝐿2 .