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Generalized Witt and Morita equivalences

Quantum Algebra 2025-11-05 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory Category Theory

Abstract

In this work, we introduce a family of new equivalence relations among fusion categories that are less refined than the usual Morita equivalence. We obtain abelian groups by quotienting these new equivalence relations from the commutative monoids of the equivalence classes of all fusion categories. Moreover, we upgrade them to equivalence relations among nondegenerate braided fusion categories that are more refined than the usual Witt equivalence. As a consequence, we obtain new abelian groups that are more refined than the usual Witt group. These new groups allow us to access the internal structures within Witt classes. We expect that they are useful in the classification program of (braided) fusion (higher) categories and in the study of gapless edges of 2+1D topological orders.

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@article{arxiv.2511.02624,
  title  = {Generalized Witt and Morita equivalences},
  author = {Liang Kong and Yilong Wang and Hao Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02624},
  year   = {2025}
}

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20 pages

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