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Invertible projective 2-representations from invertible 2d TQFTs with defects

Category Theory 2025-09-23 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra Representation Theory

Abstract

We investigate invertible projective representations and their 2-categorical analogues using the language of TQFTs with defects. The main result is a freeness property for invertible projective representatios. While trivial in the 1-categorical setting, this result becomes interesting for 2-representations: as an application, only relying only on invertibility of Clifford algebras and Fock bimodules in the Morita 2-category of super vector spaces we recover Ludewig--Roos' result that the Clifford/Fock construction is a projective 2-representation of the category of Lagrangian correspondences.

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@article{arxiv.2509.16626,
  title  = {Invertible projective 2-representations from invertible 2d TQFTs with defects},
  author = {Domenico Fiorenza and Chetan Vuppulury},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.16626},
  year   = {2025}
}

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30 pages

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