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A universal rigid abelian tensor category

Algebraic Geometry 2022-07-01 v2 K-Theory and Homology Representation Theory

Abstract

We prove that any rigid additive symmetric monoidal category can be mapped to a rigid abelian symmetric monoidal category in a universal way. This yields a novel approach to Grothendieck's standard conjecture D and Voevodsky's smash nilpotence conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2111.11217,
  title  = {A universal rigid abelian tensor category},
  author = {L. Barbieri-Viale and B. Kahn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.11217},
  year   = {2022}
}
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