Differential Lie Coalgebras and Lie Conformal Algebras

Abstract

We define a functor from the category of Lie conformal algebras to the category of differential Lie coalgebras, which associates to any Lie conformal algebra $L$ a differential Lie coalgebra $L^{\,0}$, defined as the maximal good $\mathbb{C}[\partial]$-submodule of the conformal dual $L^{*c}$. We show that the contravariant functor ${ }^{0}$ is right adjoint to the contravariant functor ${ }^{*c}$. We define the Loc functor from the category of differential Lie coalgebras to the category of locally finite differential Lie coalgebras, associating to any differential Lie coalgebra $M$ the differential Lie coalgebra Loc$(M)$, defined as the largest locally finite differential Lie subcoalgebra of $M$. We prove that for any Lie conformal algebra $L$ that is free as a $\mathbb{C}[\partial]$-module, Loc$(L^{0})$ is the set of conformal linear maps on $L$ whose kernel contains an ideal of $L$ of cofinite rank. In general, $L^{0}$ will not be locally finite, so $\operatorname{Loc}\left(L^{0}\right) \varsubsetneqq L^{0}$. We present an example illustrating this.