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The Drinfeld center of an oligomorphic tensor category

Representation Theory 2026-04-02 v1

Abstract

Recently, Harman and the second author introduced a new construction of pre-Tannakian tensor categories based on oligomorphic groups. We develop tools for analyzing the Drinfeld centers of these categories, and compute the center explicitly in a number of cases. In particular, we find several finitely tensor-generated pre-Tannakian categories (including the Delannoy category) that are identified with their own center via the canonical functor; prior to this work, we knew no such examples besides the category of vector spaces.

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@article{arxiv.2604.00290,
  title  = {The Drinfeld center of an oligomorphic tensor category},
  author = {Pavel Etingof and Andrew Snowden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.00290},
  year   = {2026}
}

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