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Representation categories of Mackey Lie algebras as universal monoidal categories

Representation Theory 2017-10-04 v1 Category Theory

Abstract

Let K\mathbb{K} be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 00. We study a monoidal category Tα\mathbb{T}_\alpha which is universal among all symmetric K\mathbb{K}-linear monoidal categories generated by two objects AA and BB such that AA has a, possibly transfinite, filtration. We construct Tα\mathbb{T}_\alpha as a category of representations of the Lie algebra glM(V,V)\mathfrak{gl}^M(V_*,V) consisting of endomorphisms of a fixed diagonalizable pairing VVKV_*\otimes V\to \mathbb{K} of vector spaces VV_* and VV of dimension α\alpha. Here α\alpha is an arbitrary cardinal number. We describe explicitly the simple and the injective objects of Tα\mathbb{T}_\alpha and prove that the category Tα\mathbb{T}_\alpha is Koszul. We pay special attention to the case where the filtration on AA is finite. In this case α=t\alpha=\aleph_t for tZ0t\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}.

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@article{arxiv.1710.00976,
  title  = {Representation categories of Mackey Lie algebras as universal monoidal categories},
  author = {Alexandru Chirvasitu and Ivan Penkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00976},
  year   = {2017}
}

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