Tomoyuki Arakawa (Japanese: 荒川 知幸; born 22 May 1968) is a Japanese mathematician, mathematical physicist, and a professor at the RIMS of the Kyoto University. His research interests are representation theory and vertex algebras and he is known especially for the work in W-algebras. He obtained his PhD from the University of Nagoya in 1999. In 2018 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.^[1] He won the MSJ Autumn Prize in 2017 for his work on representation theory of W-algebras.^[2]

Selected publications

• Arakawa, Tomoyuki (1 August 2007). "Representation theory of W-algebras". Inventiones Mathematicae. 169 (2): 219–320. doi:10.1007/s00222-007-0046-1. ISSN 1432-1297. S2CID 122047968.
• Arakawa, Tomoyuki (2015). "Rationality of W-algebras: principal nilpotent cases". Annals of Mathematics. 182 (2): 565–604. arXiv:1211.7124. doi:10.4007/annals.2015.182.2.4. ISSN 0003-486X. JSTOR 24523343. S2CID 53477362.
• Arakawa, Tomoyuki; Creutzig, Thomas; Linshaw, Andrew R. (1 October 2019). "W-algebras as coset vertex algebras". Inventiones Mathematicae. 218 (1): 145–195. arXiv:1801.03822. Bibcode:2019InMat.218..145A. doi:10.1007/s00222-019-00884-3. ISSN 1432-1297. S2CID 253745764.