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The subobject decomposition in enveloping tensor categories

Category Theory 2024-04-02 v3 Representation Theory

Abstract

To every regular category A\mathcal{A} equipped with a degree function δ\delta one can attach a pseudo-abelian tensor category T(A,δ)\mathcal{T}(\mathcal{A},\delta). We show that the generating objects of T\mathcal{T} decompose canonically as a direct sum. In this paper we calculate morphisms, compositions of morphisms and tensor products of the summands. As a special case we recover the original construction of Deligne's category RepSt\operatorname{Rep} S_t.

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@article{arxiv.2103.08686,
  title  = {The subobject decomposition in enveloping tensor categories},
  author = {Friedrich Knop},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.08686},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v1: 16 pages; v2: 16 pages, typos fixed, comparison with Deligne's construction extended; v3: 16 pages, a few typos corrected, final version, to appear in a memorial volume for T.A. Springer

R2 v1 2026-06-24T00:12:13.596Z