Ising Virasoro modules from a Majorana fermion
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A chiral Majorana fermion with modes and has and central charge . The even and odd fermion-number parts of its Neveu–Schwarz sector give unitary modules with lowest weights and . In its Ramond sector, a choice of ground-state zero-mode eigenvalue gives the module of weight ; the other choice gives an isomorphic Virasoro algebra module. Their cyclic highest-weight submodules are irreducible: a positive-energy invariant proper submodule would have a lowest vector orthogonal to every descendant of the original highest vector, which is impossible in a positive inner-product cyclic module.
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