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In this article, we investigate monoidal, braided, sylleptic centralizers of monoidal, braided, sylleptic 2-functors. We specifically focus on multifusion 2-categories and show that monoidal, braided, sylleptic centralizers are multifusion…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Hao Xu

Let $\mathcal{E}=\text{Rep}(G)$ be a Tannakian fusion category. For a braided fusion category $\mathcal{C}$ over $\mathcal{E}$ we give sufficient and necessary conditions that characterize the Witt relation $[\mathcal{C}]=[\mathcal{E}]$.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Theo Johnson-Freyd , Victor Ostrik , Zhiqiang Yu

In this paper, we introduce the definitions of signatures of braided fusion categories, which are proved to be invariants of their Witt equivalence classes. These signature assignments define group homomorphisms on the Witt group. The…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Siu-Hung Ng , Eric C. Rowell , Yilong Wang , Qing Zhang

We show that the Witt class of a weakly group-theoretical non-degenerate braided fusion category belongs to the subgroup generated by classes of non-degenerate pointed braided fusion categories and Ising braided categories. This applies in…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2013-01-28 Sonia Natale

We give a characterization of Drinfeld centers of fusion categories as non-degenerate braided fusion categories containing a Lagrangian algebra. Further we study the quotient of the monoid of non-degenerate braided fusion categories modulo…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-09-08 Alexei Davydov , Michael Mueger , Dmitri Nikshych , Victor Ostrik

We analyze the structure of the Witt group W of braided fusion categories introduced in the previous paper arXiv:1009.2117v2. We define a "super" version of the categorical Witt group, namely, the group sW of slightly degenerate braided…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Alexei Davydov , Dmitri Nikshych , Victor Ostrik

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

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

A key invariant of a braided categorical group is its quadratic form, introduced by Joyal and Street. We show that the categorical group is braided equivalent to a simultaneously skeletal and strictly associative one if and only if the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Oliver Braunling

Let $H$ be a dual quasi-Hopf algebra. In this paper we will firstly introduce all possible categories of Yetter-Drinfeld modules over $H$, and give explicitly the monoidal and braided structure of them. Then we prove that the category…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Daowei Lu , Xiaohui Zhang , Dingguo Wang

We give a definition of an operad with general groups of equivariance suitable for use in any symmetric monoidal category with appropriate colimits. We then apply this notion to study the 2-category of algebras over an operad in Cat. We…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Alexander S. Corner , Nick Gurski

In this paper, we state and prove precise theorems on the classification of the category of (braided) categorical groups and their (braided) monoidal functors, and some applications obtained from the basic studies on monoidal functors…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-04 Nguyen Tien Quang , Nguyen Thu Thuy , Pham Thi Cuc

In this paper we study the Witt groups of symmetric and anti-symmetric forms on perverse sheaves on a finite-dimensional topologically stratified space with even dimensional strata. We show that the Witt group has a canonical decomposition…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Jörg Schürmann , Jon Woolf

In this work, we introduce a family of new equivalence relations among fusion categories that are less refined than the usual Morita equivalence. We obtain abelian groups by quotienting these new equivalence relations from the commutative…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Liang Kong , Yilong Wang , Hao Zheng

We describe the Witt invariants of a Weyl group over a field $k_0$ by giving generators for the $W(k_0)$-module of Witt invariants, under the assumption that the characteristic of $k_0$ does not divide the order of the group. For the Weyl…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Tamar Blanks

We prove that any fusion category over $\mathbb{C}$ with exactly one non-invertible simple object is spherical. Furthermore, we classify all such categories that come equipped with a braiding.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-02-24 Josiah Thornton

In arXiv:2211.04917, it was shown that, over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, every fusion 2-category is Morita equivalent to a connected fusion 2-category, that is, one arising from a braided fusion 1-category. This…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Thibault D. Décoppet , Sean Sanford

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

Rigid monoidal 1-categories are ubiquitous throughout quantum algebra and low-dimensional topology. We study a generalization of this notion, namely rigid algebras in an arbitrary monoidal 2-category. Examples of rigid algebras include…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Thibault D. Décoppet

We study semi-strict tricategories in which the only weakness is in vertical composition. We construct these as categories enriched in the category of bicategories with strict functors, with respect to the cartesian monoidal structure. As…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Eugenia Cheng , Alexander S. Corner
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