The Drinfeld--Sokolov reduction of admissible representations of affine Lie algebras

Abstract

Fix an affine Lie algebra $\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}_\kappa$ with associated principal affine W-algebra $\mathcal{W}_\kappa$. A basic conjecture of Frenkel--Kac--Wakimoto asserts that Drinfeld--Sokolov reduction sends admissible $\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}_\kappa$-modules to zero or cohomological shifts of minimal series $\mathcal{W}_\kappa$-modules. We prove this conjecture and a natural generalization to the spectrally flowed Drinfeld--Sokolov reduction functors. This extends the previous results of Arakawa for the minus reduction.