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We first motivate the study of a certain quotient of the loop braid category, both for the mathematics underpinning recent approaches to topological quantum computation; and as a key example in non-semisimple higher representation theory.…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Paul P. Martin , Eric C. Rowell , Fiona Torzewska

This paper introduces the concept of distorted monoidal categories, a generalization of monoidal and braided monoidal categories that supports non-reversible and direction-sensitive tensor structures. Unlike the classical setting, where the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Joaquim Reizi Higuchi

We categorify the notion of an infinitesimal braiding in a linear strict symmetric monoidal category, leading to the notion of a (strict) infinitesimal 2-braiding in a linear symmetric strict monoidal 2-category. We describe the associated…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Lucio S. Cirio , João Faria Martins

We classify braided tensor categories over C of exponential growth which are quasisymmetric, i.e., the squared braiding is the identity on the product of any two simple objects. This generalizes the classification results of Deligne on…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-06-01 Pavel Etingof , Shlomo Gelaki

We study the problem of determining if the braid group representations obtained from quantum groups of types $E, F$ and $G$ at roots of unity have infinite image or not. In particular we show that when the fusion categories associated with…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2010-04-26 Eric C. Rowell

We introduce the idea of a geometric categorical Lie algebra action on derived categories of coherent sheaves. The main result is that such an action induces an action of the braid group associated to the Lie algebra. The same proof shows…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Sabin Cautis , Joel Kamnitzer

Braided groups and braided matrices are novel algebraic structures living in braided or quasitensor categories. As such they are a generalization of super-groups and super-matrices to the case of braid statistics. Here we construct braided…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Shahn Majid

Every fusion category C that is k-linear over a suitable field k, is the category of finite-dimensional comodules of a Weak Hopf Algebra H. This Weak Hopf Algebra is finite-dimensional, cosemisimple and has commutative bases. It arises as…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-04-21 Hendryk Pfeiffer

Under appropriate conditions, if one picks a commutative algebra A with action of group G in braided monoidal category C, the category of A modules in C obtains a natural crossed G-braided structure. In the case of general commutative…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Devon Stockall

We introduce the notion of a matched pair of fusion rings and fusion categories, generalizing the one for groups. Using this concept, we define the bicrossed product of fusion rings and fusion categories and we construct exact…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Monique Müller , Héctor Martín Peña Pollastri , Julia Plavnik

The role of quantum groups and braid groups in the description of Standard Model particles is discussed. Some recent results on the use of the quantum group $SU_q(3)$ as a flavour symmetry are reviewed and a connection between two…

General Physics · Physics 2017-11-27 Niels G. Gresnigt

In this paper we classify all semisimple tensor categories with the same fusion rules as $\operatorname{Rep}(SO(4))$, or one of the associated truncations. We show that such categories are explicitly classified by two non-zero complex…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Daniel Copeland , Cain Edie-Michell

Let C be an integral fusion category. We study some graphs, called the prime graph and the common divisor graph, related to the Frobenius-Perron dimensions of simple objects in the category C, that extend the corresponding graphs associated…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Sonia Natale , Edwin Pacheco

We prove that every slightly degenerate braided fusion category admits a minimal nondegenerate extension, and hence that every pseudo-unitary super modular tensor category admits a minimal modular extension. This completes the program of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Theo Johnson-Freyd , David Reutter

We prove that the Drinfeld center of a fusion 2-category is invariant under Morita equivalence. We go on to show that the concept of Morita equivalence between connected fusion 2-categories recovers exactly the notion of Witt equivalence…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Thibault D. Décoppet

We show that if $V$ is a vertex operator algebra such that all the irreducible ordinary $V$-modules are $C_1$-cofinite and all the grading-restricted generalized Verma modules for $V$ are of finite length, then the category of finite length…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Thomas Creutzig , Jinwei Yang

We develop a categorical approach to quivers and their modules. Naturally this leads to a notion of an action of a monoidal category on quivers. Using this, we construct for a large class of quivers rigid monoidal structures on their…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Gregor Schaumann

We introduce a diagrammatic braided monoidal category, the quantum spin Brauer category, together with a full functor to the category of finite-dimensional, type $1$ modules for $U_q(\mathfrak{so}(N))$ or $U_q(\mathfrak{o}(N))$. This…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Peter J. McNamara , Alistair Savage

We study the question of dualizability in higher Morita categories of locally presentable tensor categories and braided tensor categories. Our main results are that the 3-category of rigid tensor categories with enough compact projectives…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Adrien Brochier , David Jordan , Noah Snyder

We develop a theory of localization for braid group representations associated with objects in braided fusion categories and, more generally, to Yang-Baxter operators in monoidal categories. The essential problem is to determine when a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-05-26 César Galindo , Seung-Moon Hong , Eric C. Rowell