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We explain how, under some hypotheses, one can construct a sequence of finite dimensional $kG$-modules that lie in certain prescribed additive subcategories, but whose direct limits do not. We use these to show that many of the triangulated…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-08-27 Matthew Grime

Fusion categories are fundamental objects in quantum algebra, but their definition is narrow in some respects. By definition a fusion category must be k-linear for some field k, and every simple object V is strongly simple, meaning that (V)…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Greg Kuperberg

Restriction categories were established to handle maps that are partially defined with respect to composition. Tensor topology realises that monoidal categories have an intrinsic notion of space, and deals with objects and maps that are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-11 C. Heunen , J. S. Pacaud Lemay

We show that once-extended anomalous 3-dimensional topological quantum field theories valued in the 2-category of k-linear categories are in canonical bijection with modular tensor categories equipped with a square root of the global…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Bruce Bartlett , Christopher L. Douglas , Christopher J. Schommer-Pries , Jamie Vicary

We give an introduction to constructive category theory by answering two guiding computational questions. The first question is: how do we compute the set of all natural transformations between two finitely presented functors like…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Sebastian Posur

For each finite semisimple tensor category, we associate a quantum group (face algebra) whose comodule category is equivalent to the original one, in a simple natural manner. To do this, we also give a generalization of the Tannaka-Krein…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Takahiro Hayashi

Let G be a finite group. Given a finite G-set X and a modular tensor category C, we construct a weak G-equivariant fusion category, called the permutation equivariant tensor category. The construction is geometric and uses the formalism of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-03-14 Till Barmeier , Christoph Schweigert

We introduce the notion of meromorphic tensor category and illustrate it in several examples. They include representations of quantum affine algebras, chiral algebras of Beilinson and Drinfeld, G-vertex algebras of Borcherds, and…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Yan Soibelman

It has been conjectured that finite tensor categories have finitely generated cohomology. We show that this is equivalent to finitely generated Hochschild cohomology for the endomorphism algebras of the projective generators.

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Petter Andreas Bergh

The purpose of this note is to work out the details of the concrete incarnation of a few categorical constructions (products, coproducts, pullbacks, pushouts, equalizers, coequalizers, and exponentials) in some useful and basic categories:…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Ignacio Viglizzo

We show that the category of comodules over a coassociative coalgebra in a complete, cocomplete and well-powered category has limits and colimits under additional assumptions.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Anton Lyubinin

This is the eighth part in a series of papers in which we introduce and develop a natural, general tensor category theory for suitable module categories for a vertex (operator) algebra. In this paper (Part VIII), we construct the braided…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-05-14 Yi-Zhi Huang , James Lepowsky , Lin Zhang

A concise guide to very basic bicategory theory, from the definition of a bicategory to the coherence theorem.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tom Leinster

To every regular category $\mathcal{A}$ equipped with a degree function $\delta$ one can attach a pseudo-abelian tensor category $\mathcal{T}(\mathcal{A},\delta)$. We show that the generating objects of $\mathcal{T}$ decompose canonically…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Friedrich Knop

In this article we present a detailed study of the existing constructions of colilimits in the category of symmetrical operations. In addition, some examples of operads obtained from colimits of other operads are presented.

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Jesús Sánchez-Guevara

Definable subcategories may be extended along a ring homomorphism directly, by using their defining conditions in the new module category, or by tensoring up with the new ring. We investigate what is preserved and reflected by these…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Mike Prest

In this paper, we propose two new classes of tensors: double B-tensors and quasi-double B-tensors, give some properties of double B-tensors and quasi-double B-tensors, discuss their relationships with B-tensors and positive definite tensors…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Chaoqian Li , Yaotang Li

Like categories, small 2-categories have well-understood classifying spaces. In this paper, we deal with homotopy types represented by 2-diagrams of 2-categories. Our results extend to homotopy colimits of 2-functors lower categorical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-24 A. M. Cegarra , B. A. Heredia

We interpret the construction of relative Cuntz-Pimsner algebras of correspondences in terms of the correspondence bicategory, as a reflector into a certain sub-bicategory. This generalises a previous characterisation of absolute…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Ralf Meyer , Camila F. Sehnem

We describe several infinite families of braided finite tensor categories. A simplest example gives a non-degenerate braided tensor category which is not Witt equivalent to a semisimple category.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Victor Ostrik , Alexandra Utiralova