The balanced structure on the category of representations of a conformal net

Abstract

Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a (not necessarily rational) conformal net. We show that the braided ${\mathrm{W}}^{\ast }$-tensor category $\text{Rep}(\mathcal{A})$ of representations of $\mathcal{A}$ is canonically a balanced ${\mathrm{W}}^{\ast }$-tensor category. The balance is given by the action of $e^{-2\pi i{L}_0}$, where $L_0$ denotes the generator of rotations on $S^1$. In arXiv:2606.03623, we generalize this result to the larger context of a group acting on $\mathcal{A}$. We provide here a more accessible proof for the case where no group is present.

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