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Tannaka-Krein reconstruction for fusion 2-categories

Category Theory 2023-09-12 v1 Quantum Algebra Representation Theory

Abstract

We reprove the classical Tannaka-Krein reconstruction theorem by finding a monoidal equivalence of categories between a 1-truncated sub-2-category of the slice 2-category Mod(Vec)/Vec{\sf Mod}({\sf Vec})/{\sf Vec} and the category of algebras. We then immediately generalize this approach to find a monoidal equivalence of 2-categories between a 2-truncated sub-3-category of the slice 3-category Mod(TwoVec)/TwoVec{\sf Mod}({\sf TwoVec})/{\sf TwoVec} and the category of algebras. As an immediate consequence, a finite semisimple 2-Hopf algebra CC can be recovered from its fusion 2-category of modules together with the monoidal fiber 2-functor to TwoVec{\sf TwoVec}. Moreover, every fusion 2-category equipped with a monoidal functor to TwoVec{\sf TwoVec} is of this form.

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@article{arxiv.2309.05591,
  title  = {Tannaka-Krein reconstruction for fusion 2-categories},
  author = {David Green},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05591},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

35 pages, many figures. Comments welcome!