We provide first a purely VOA-theoretic guide to the theory of coordinate transformations for a VOA in direct accordance with its first appearance in a paper of Zhu. Among these results, we are able to obtain new closed-form expressions for the square-bracket Heisenberg modes. We then elaborate on the connection to p-adic modular forms which arise as characters of states in p-adic VOAs. In particular, we show that the image of the p-adic character map for the p-adic Heisenberg VOA contains infinitely-many p-adic modular forms of level one which are not quasi-modular. Finally, we introduce a new VOA structure obtained from the Artin-Hasse exponential, and serving as the p-adic analogue of the square-bracket formalism. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Mathematics / Gerald H. Höhn / We classify the genera of doubly even binary codes, the genera of even lattices, and the genera of rational vertex operator algebras (VOAs) arising from the modular tensor categories (MTCs) of rank up to 4 and central charges up to 16. For the genera of even lattices, there are two types of the genera: code type genera and non code type genera. The number of the code type genera is finite. The genera of the lattices of rank larger than or equal to 17 are non code type. We apply the idea of a vector valued modular form and the representation of the modular group SL[subscript]2(Z) in [Bantay2007] to classify the genera of the VOAs arising from the MTCs of ranks up to 4 and central charges up to 16.

Vertex algebras and strongly homotopy Lie algebras (SHLA) are extensively used in qunatum field theory and string theory. Recently, it was shown that a Courant algebroid can be naturally lifted to a SHLA. The 0-product in the de Rham chiral algebra has an identical formula to the Courant bracket of vector fields and 1-forms. We show that in general, a vertex algebra has an SHLA structure and that the de Rham chiral algebra has a non-zero l4 homotopy.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第23685号 / 理博第4775号 / 新制||理||1684(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科数学・数理解析専攻 / (主査)教授 荒川 知幸, 教授 玉川 安騎男, 教授 並河 良典 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DFAM