Weight module classifications for Bershadsky–Polyakov algebras

Abstract

The Bershadsky–Polyakov algebras are the subregular quantum Hamiltonian reductions of the affine vertex operator algebras associated with ${𝔰𝔩}_3$. In (D. Adamović, K. Kawasetsu and D. Ridout, A realisation of the Bershadsky–Polyakov algebras and their relaxed modules, Lett. Math. Phys.111 (2021) 38, arXiv:2007.00396 [math.QA]), we realized these algebras in terms of the regular reduction, Zamolodchikov’s W₃-algebra, and an isotropic lattice vertex operator algebra. We also proved that a natural construction of relaxed highest-weight Bershadsky–Polyakov modules has the property that the result is generically irreducible. Here, we prove that this construction, when combined with spectral flow twists, gives a complete set of irreducible weight modules whose weight spaces are finite-dimensional. This gives a simple independent proof of the main classification theorem of (Z. Fehily, K. Kawasetsu and D. Ridout, Classifying relaxed highest-weight modules for admissible-level Bershadsky–Polyakov algebras, Comm. Math. Phys.385 (2021) 859–904, arXiv:2007.03917 [math.RT]) for nondegenerate admissible levels and extends this classification to a category of weight modules. We also deduce the classification for the nonadmissible level $k=-\frac{7}{3}$, which is new.