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Equivariant Eilenberg-Watts theorems for locally compact quantum groups

Operator Algebras 2025-11-06 v2 Category Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Given two von Neumann algebras AA and BB, the WW^*-algebraic Eilenberg-Watts theorem, due to M. Rieffel, asserts that there is a canonical equivalence Corr(A,B)Fun(Rep(B),Rep(A))\operatorname{Corr}(A,B)\simeq \operatorname{Fun}(\operatorname{Rep}(B), \operatorname{Rep}(A)) of categories, where Corr(A,B)\operatorname{Corr}(A,B) denotes the category of all AA-BB-correspondences, Rep(A)\operatorname{Rep}(A) is the category of all unital normal *-representations of AA on Hilbert spaces and Fun(Rep(B),Rep(A))\operatorname{Fun}(\operatorname{Rep}(B), \operatorname{Rep}(A)) denotes the category of all normal *-functors Rep(B)Rep(A)\operatorname{Rep}(B)\to \operatorname{Rep}(A). In this paper, we upgrade the von Neumann algebras AA and BB with actions AGA\curvearrowleft \mathbb{G} and BGB\curvearrowleft \mathbb{G} of a locally compact quantum group G\mathbb{G}, and we provide several equivariant versions of the WW^*-algebraic Eilenberg-Watts theorem using the language of module categories. We also prove that for a locally compact quantum group G\mathbb{G} with Drinfeld double D(G)D(\mathbb{G}), the category of unitary D(G)D(\mathbb{G})-representations is isomorphic to the Drinfeld center of Rep(G)\operatorname{Rep}(\mathbb{G}), generalizing a result by Neshveyev-Yamashita from the compact to the locally compact setting.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2510.06206,
  title  = {Equivariant Eilenberg-Watts theorems for locally compact quantum groups},
  author = {Joeri De Ro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.06206},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v2: 35 pages, comments are welcome! More references were added. Section 4 rewritten in other conventions

R2 v1 2026-07-01T06:22:06.192Z