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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 prove that a finite braided tensor category A is invertible in the Morita 4-category BrTens of braided tensor categories if, and only if, it is non-degenerate. This includes the case of semisimple modular tensor categories, but also…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Adrien Brochier , David Jordan , Pavel Safronov , Noah Snyder

Category theoretic aspects of non-rational conformal field theories are discussed. We consider the case that the category C of chiral sectors is a finite tensor category, i.e. a rigid monoidal category whose class of objects has certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jurgen Fuchs

A group-category is an additively semisimple category with a monoidal product structure in which the simple objects are invertible. For example in the category of representations of a group, 1-dimensional representations are the invertible…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Quinn

For a braided fusion category $\mathcal{V}$, a $\mathcal{V}$-fusion category is a fusion category $\mathcal{C}$ equipped with a braided monoidal functor $\mathcal{F}:\mathcal{V} \to Z(\mathcal{C})$. Given a fixed $\mathcal{V}$-fusion…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Corey Jones , Scott Morrison , David Penneys , Julia Plavnik

We apply the yoga of classical homotopy theory to classification problems of G-extensions of fusion and braided fusion categories, where G is a finite group. Namely, we reduce such problems to classification (up to homotopy) of maps from BG…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-12-29 Pavel Etingof , Dmitri Nikshych , Victor Ostrik , with an appendix by Ehud Meir

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

For a semisimple multiring category with left duals, we prove that the unit object is simple if and only if the tensor functors by any non-zero algebra are separable (resp. faithful, resp. Maschke, resp. dual Maschke, resp. conservative).…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Zhenbang Zuo

In this paper, we introduce the category of brace triples in a braided monoidal setting and prove that it is isomorphic to the category of s-Hopf braces, which are a generalization of cocommutative Hopf braces. After that, we obtain a…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-04-15 José Manuel Fernández Vilaboa , Ramón González Rodríguez , Brais Ramos Pérez

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 establish tetrahedral symmetries of 6j-symbols for arbitrary fusion categories under minimal assumptions. As a convenient tool for our calculations we introduce the notion of a veined fusion category, which is generated by a finite set…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Jürgen Fuchs , Tobias Grøsfjeld

Presentations for unbraided, braided and symmetric pseudomonoids are defined. Biequivalences characterising the semistrict bicategories generated by these presentations are proven. It is shown that these biequivalences categorify results in…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Dominic Verdon

We relate commutative algebras in braided tensor categories to braid-reversed tensor equivalences, motivated by vertex algebra representation theory. First, for $\mathcal{C}$ a braided tensor category, we give a detailed construction of the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Thomas Creutzig , Shashank Kanade , Robert McRae

For a finite group $G$, a $G$-crossed braided fusion category is $G$-graded fusion category with additional structures, namely a $G$-action and a $G$-braiding. We develop the notion of $G$-crossed braided zesting: an explicit method for…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Colleen Delaney , César Galindo , Julia Plavnik , Eric Rowell , Qing Zhang

This paper gives a new interpretation of the virtual braid group in terms of a strict monoidal category SC that is freely generated by one object and three morphisms, two of the morphisms corresponding to basic pure virtual braids and one…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Louis H. Kauffman , Sofia Lambropoulou

Given a category, one may construct slices of it. That is, one builds a new category whose objects are the morphisms from the category with a fixed codomain and morphisms certain commutative triangles. If the category is a groupoid, so that…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Nicholas Cooney , Jan E. Grabowski

We initiate the study of non-semisimple algebras in fusion categories by establishing the framework of $\mathcal{C}$-species -- analogous to the framework of species and quivers used in the study of Artin algebras. Under the (necessary)…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Edmund Heng , Mateusz Stroiński

We begin with a brief sketch of what is known and conjectured concerning braided monoidal 2-categories and their applications to 4d topological quantum field theories and 2-tangles (surfaces embedded in 4-dimensional space). Then we give…

q-alg · Mathematics 2020-11-23 John C. Baez , Martin Neuchl

A unitary fusion category is called $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$-quadratic if it has a $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ group of invertible objects and one other orbit of simple objects under the action of this group. We give a complete classification…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Cain Edie-Michell , Masaki Izumi , David Penneys

We establish rank-finiteness for the class of $G$-crossed braided fusion categories, generalizing the recent result for modular categories and including the important case of braided fusion categories. This necessitates a study of slightly…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Corey Jones , Scott Morrison , Dmitri Nikshych , Eric C. Rowell