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Deligne-Knop tensor categories and functoriality

Representation Theory 2024-07-08 v1 Category Theory

Abstract

A general construction of Knop creates a symmetric monoidal category T(A,δ)\mathcal{T}(\mathcal{A},\delta) from any regular category A\mathcal{A} and a fixed degree function δ\delta. A special case of this construction are the Deligne categories Rep(St)\underline{\operatorname{Rep}}(S_t) and Rep(GLt(Fq))\underline{\operatorname{Rep}}(GL_t(\mathbb{F}_q)). We discuss when a functor F:AAF:\mathcal{A} \to \mathcal{A}' between regular categories induces a symmetric monoidal functor T(A,δ)T(A,δ)\mathcal{T}(\mathcal{A},\delta) \to \mathcal{T}(\mathcal{A}',\delta'). We then give a criterion when a pair of adjoint functors between two regular categories A, A\mathcal{A}, \ \mathcal{A}' lifts to a pair of adjoint functors between T(A,δ)\mathcal{T}(\mathcal{A},\delta) and T(A,δ)\mathcal{T}(\mathcal{A}',\delta').

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@article{arxiv.2407.03798,
  title  = {Deligne-Knop tensor categories and functoriality},
  author = {Inna Entova-Aizenbud and Thorsten Heidersdorf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03798},
  year   = {2024}
}
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