# Classification of quasi-lisse vertex algebras

Quasi-lisse vertex algebras were introduced by Arakawa and Kawasetsu in Quasi-lisse vertex algebras and modular linear differential equations . They satisfy the property that the normalized character of an ordinary representation of a quasi-lisse vertex operator algebra has a modular invariance property, in the sense that it satisfies a modular linear differential equation. I am wondering how much is known about the classification of these algebras?

1. Is a complete classification possible?
2. What are some examples of quasi-lisse vertex algebras apart from the one's discussed in the paper (affine vertex algebras associated with the Deligne exceptional series at non-admissible levels) and traditional ones (such as affine VOAs at admissible levels and their W-algebras through work of Kac and Wakimoto)?
3. A special case is the classification of rational and $$C_2$$-cofinite vertex algebras? Can these be classified?
4. What are some examples where the quasi-modular forms of the characters have been explicitly calculated?

My interest is mainly in the modular invariance of vertex algebras and I am looking for lots of different examples where such explicit computations of characters have been made or could be made.

I do not have a complete answer to your questions, but this is what I can say for now:

Question 1: A classification is impossible (see the response to question 3).

Question 2: Additional examples are mentioned in the introduction to the Arakawa-Kawasetsu paper you have linked. In particular, there is a large family of examples coming from $$N=2$$ superconformal field theory in 4 dimensions. This was mentioned as a conjecture in Arakawa-Kawasetsu, but Arakawa recently showed that the associated varieties coincide with the Moore-Tachikawa varieties (as defined by Braverman-Finkelberg-Nakajima) of the 4d theories.

Question 3: Even in this special case, classification is hopeless, because it subsumes the problem of classifying all positive definite even lattices. Even the question of holomorphic $$C_2$$-cofinite vertex operator algebras (those whose representation category is semisimple with only one irreducible object) is essentially impossible: The number of isomorphism classes in this special case is given by

• 1 for central charge 0 (the trivial one dimensional VOA)
• 1 for central charge 8 (the $$E_8$$ lattice VOA)
• 2 for central charge 16 (from the $$E_8 \times E_8$$ and $$D_{16}^+$$ lattices)
• 71 for central charge 24 (conjecturally)
• more than $$1.1 \times 10^9$$ for central charge 32

The first few figures are a theorem of Dong and Mason, and the 71 is a conjecture of Schellekens that is "mostly solved". The lower bound for $$c=32$$ is from Oliver King (top of page 17). We can get large lower bounds in large central charge because of the explosive growth of unimodular lattice isomorphism classes.

Question 4: Character computations are scattered throughout the literature. For lattice vertex algebras, the characters are given by the modular functions $$\Theta_{L+\lambda}(\tau)/\eta^{\text{rank }L}(\tau)$$, where $$\lambda \in L^\vee/L$$. For some elementary cases like minimal models, I think you can find them in conformal field theory texts. For other cases, I suggest a search (or asking experts for characters of specific objects rather than all of them).