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Strongly rational VOA convention
Definition
For this pair, a VOA is strongly rational when all five conditions hold. “Simple” means that has no nonzero proper subspace stable under every mode , for all and :
- is simple.
- is of CFT type: for and , with the remaining grading conventions of Conformal vertex algebra of CFT type.
- is self-contragredient: its restricted graded dual , with the opposite-field action of Contragredient module of a generalized module, is isomorphic to as a -module.
- is rational in the admissible-module convention of Rationality in the admissible-module convention.
- is -cofinite in the sense of C2-cofiniteness.
This convention states these five hypotheses separately. It does not include a conclusion about a module category.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: is a conformal vertex algebra over .
Conformal vertex algebra of CFT type: CFT type includes the nonnegative integral conformal grading, finite-dimensional graded pieces and .
Rationality in the admissible-module convention: rationality means complete reducibility of admissible modules.
C2-cofiniteness: -cofiniteness means is finite dimensional.
Contragredient module of a generalized module: the contragredient construction uses the restricted graded dual and the opposite-field formula; the definition alone does not prove the module identities.
The restricted dual with opposite action is a contragredient module proves that for every grading-restricted generalized module over a conformal vertex algebra of CFT type, the opposite-field restricted dual is a grading-restricted generalized module and componentwise evaluation gives a module isomorphism to its double contragredient. Its current proof uses the proved opposite-field Jacobi, derivative and Möbius identities.
Proof
The definition is the conjunction of simplicity, CFT type, self-contragredience, admissible rationality and -cofiniteness, with the relevant conventions fixed by [F1]–[F4].
The CFT-type grading in [F1] makes itself a grading-restricted module: its weights are nonnegative integers and every graded piece is finite dimensional. Therefore [F5] applies to and makes the restricted dual in [F4] an actual -module. The module isomorphism required in condition 3 is consequently well-defined. Its existence is a separate condition on ; neither [F5] nor this definition asserts that every such is self-contragredient or implies any of the other four conditions.
Proof status
This is the selected five-condition convention, matching Huang’s Theorem 1.1. The current contragredient supplier proves the module structure needed to formulate self-contragredience; that earlier missing-identity hold no longer applies. This scoped supplier-use correction does not establish generic HLZ convergence or coherence, or any rigidity, ribbon or modularity conclusion.