OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
This lattice is associated with the exceptional module-category E_21(SU(3)) over the fusion (monoidal) category A_21(SU(3)).
The Grothendieck group of the former, a finite abelian category, is a Z+ - module over the Grothendieck ring of the latter, with a basis given by isomorphism classes of simple objects.
Simple objects of A_k(SU(3)) are irreducible integrable representations of the affine Lie algebra of SU(3) at level k.
The classification of module-categories over A_k(SU(3)) was done, using another terminology, by P. Di Francesco and J.-B Zuber, and by A. Ocneanu (see refs below): it contains several infinite families that exist for all values of the positive integer k (among others one finds the A_k(SU(3)) themselves and the orbifold series D_k(SU(3))), and several exceptional cases for special values of k.
To every such module-category one can associate a set of hyper-roots (see refs below) and consider the corresponding lattice, denoted by the same symbol.
E_k(SU(3)), with k=21, is one of the exceptional cases; other exceptional cases exist for k=5 and k=9. It is also special because it has self-fusion (it is flat, in operator algebra parlance).
E_21(SU(3)) has r=24 simple objects. The rank of the lattice is 2r=48. Det =3^12. This lattice, using k=21, is defined by 2r(k+3)^2/3=9216 hyper-roots of norm 6.
The first shell is made of vectors of norm 4, they are not hyper-roots, and the second shell, of norm 6, contains not only the hyper-roots but other vectors as well. Note: for lattices of type A_k(SU(3)), vectors of shortest length and hyper-roots coincide, here this is not so.
The lattice is rescaled (q --> q^2): its theta function starts as 1 +144*q^4 + 64512*q^6 +... See example.
This theta series is an element of Gamma_0(3) of weight 24 and dimension 9. - Andy Huchala, May 14 2023
REFERENCES
P. Di Francesco and J.-B. Zuber, SU(N) lattice integrable models associated with graphs, Nucl. Phys., B 338, pp 602--646, (1990).
LINKS
Andy Huchala, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000
Robert Coquereaux, Theta functions for lattices of SU(3) hyper-roots, arXiv:1708.00560 [math.QA], 2017.
Andy Huchala, Magma Program
A. Ocneanu, The Classification of subgroups of quantum SU(N), in "Quantum symmetries in theoretical physics and mathematics", Bariloche 2000, Eds. R. Coquereaux, A. Garcia. and R. Trinchero, AMS Contemporary Mathematics, 294, pp. 133-160, (2000). End of Sec 2.5.
EXAMPLE
G.f. = 1 + 144*x^2 + 64512*x^3 + 54181224*x^4 + ...
G.f. = 1 + 144*q^4 + 64512*q^6 + 54181224*q^8 + ...
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Robert Coquereaux, Sep 01 2017
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Andy Huchala, May 15 2023
STATUS
approved