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The first boundary Virasoro singular vectors at central charge minus two
Example
At and , the boundary Virasoro central charge is and the weights are and . Their chain begins .
Let be the highest vector in and the highest vector in . Their first singular vectors are The Verma map sending to sends to a nonzero singular vector at global grade three. Thus the first embeddings are .
The resulting simple-module characters, through relative grade six, are These finite coefficients illustrate the exact all-grade character formulas and , respectively.
Statement references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The two algebraic Verma modules and the fixed values .
In this verification, a singular vector means a nonzero -eigenvector annihilated by every with . Thus the calculations below establish both the eigenvector and positive-mode conditions; [F1] gives the highest-vector relations used.
Virasoro algebra in the convention gives ; Virasoro Verma modules and contravariant forms fixes the induced module and highest-vector relations, with in this example and for and .
PBW basis and grades of Virasoro Verma modules gives linearly independent negative-mode PBW monomials and grade dimensions .
Single-chain maximal submodules at boundary Virasoro central charges identifies each first embedded Verma as the maximal proper submodule and proves the exact simple-character formulas.
Verification
Substitution into the boundary formulas gives and . From [F1], and for , . The vector is nonzero by [F2], so is singular.
For a highest vector , commutation gives At the coefficient pairs are for each of , so both modes annihilate . For , applying to a relative-grade-two vector lands below the Verma top and is zero. The distinct PBW terms make , so it is singular.
A singular vector at weight defines a Verma homomorphism by sending the new highest vector to that vector. Under [F2], this map is right multiplication by its nonzero negative-mode polynomial. PBW filters with associated graded the polynomial algebra on the negative modes, which has no zero divisors; hence right multiplication is injective. Applying this to and gives the stated embeddings, and the composite sends to . The PBW coefficients show . The proved chain lemma [F3] supplies maximality and the exact simple characters.
Directly verify the composite singular vector. Commutators give Thus . Also and . For , positive modes land below the top. Therefore is singular.
For , the character from [F3] is ; for it is , where . The coefficients of through degree six are the partition numbers . Subtracting the shifted coefficients gives and, inside the factor , . These are the displayed expansions; the coefficient arithmetic is finite and exact.