English

Measures on Cameron's treelike classes and applications to tensor categories

Combinatorics 2026-03-05 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

Measures on Fra\"iss\'e classes are a key input in the Harman--Snowden (2022) construction of tensor categories. Treelike Fra\"iss\'e classes provide a particularly tractable source of examples. In this paper, we complete the classification of measures on Cameron's elementary treelike classes. In particular, for the class T3(n)\partial \mathfrak{T}_3(n) of node-colored rooted binary tree structures with nn colors, we classify measures by an explicit bijection with directed rooted trees edge-labeled by {1,,n}\{1, \dots, n\} with a distinguished vertex, yielding (2n+2)n(2n+2)^n distinct Z[12]\mathbb{Z}\left[\frac{1}{2}\right]-valued measures. For each n1n \geq 1, we use a family of measures μnI\mu_n^I and their supports T3(n)Iord\partial \mathfrak{T}_3(n)^{\mathrm{ord}}_I (where I{1,,n}I \subseteq \{1, \dots, n\}) to construct the Karoubi envelopes Rep(T3(n)Iord;μnI)\mathbf{Rep}(\partial \mathfrak{T}_3(n)^{\mathrm{ord}}_I;\mu^I_n), producing infinite families of semisimple tensor categories with superexponential growth that cannot be obtained via Deligne's interpolation of representation categories. We also prove the nonexistence of measures on the nn-colored tree class CnTC_n\mathfrak{T} for n2n \geq 2 and the labeled tree class LTL \mathfrak{T}, extending Snowden's results for uncolored trees.

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@article{arxiv.2603.03690,
  title  = {Measures on Cameron's treelike classes and applications to tensor categories},
  author = {Thanh Can and Thomas Rüd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.03690},
  year   = {2026}
}

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48 pages; comments are welcome

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