On parafermion vertex algebras of 𝔰𝔩(2) and 𝔰𝔩(3) at level −3 2

Abstract

We study parafermion vertex algebras [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. Using the isomorphism between [Formula: see text] and the logarithmic vertex algebra [Formula: see text] from [D. Adamović, A realization of certain modules for the [Formula: see text] superconformal algebra and the affine Lie algebra [Formula: see text], Transform. Groups 21(2) (2016) 299–327], we show that these parafermion vertex algebras are infinite direct sums of irreducible modules for the Zamolodchikov algebra [Formula: see text] of central charge [Formula: see text], and that [Formula: see text] is a direct sum of irreducible [Formula: see text]-modules. As a byproduct, we prove certain conjectures about the vertex algebra [Formula: see text]. We also obtain a vertex-algebraic proof of the irreducibility of a family of [Formula: see text] modules at [Formula: see text].