English

$p$-adic dimensions in symmetric tensor categories in characteristic $p$

Representation Theory 2020-05-27 v5 Category Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

To every object XX of a symmetric tensor category over a field of characteristic p>0p>0 we attach pp-adic integers Dim+(X)\text{Dim}_+(X) and Dim(X)\text{Dim}_-(X) whose reduction modulo pp is the categorical dimension dim(X)\text{dim}(X) of XX, coinciding with the usual dimension when XX is a vector space. We study properties of Dim±(X)\text{Dim}_{\pm}(X), and in particular show that they don't always coincide with each other, and can take any value in Zp\mathbb{Z}_p. We also discuss the connection of pp-adic dimensions with the theory of λ\lambda-rings and Brauer characters.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1510.04339,
  title  = {$p$-adic dimensions in symmetric tensor categories in characteristic $p$},
  author = {Pavel Etingof and Nate Harman and Victor Ostrik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.04339},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

20 pages, latex; added Proposition 2.9, Remark 2.11 in the new version; subsection 3.4 rewritten, small error pointed out by K. Coulembier corrected in proof of Proposition 3.6 and a another small error in Remark 3.3

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