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We point out that double categories provide a natural setting for modular functors obtained by a (bicategorical) string-net construction: The source of the modular functor -- which is now a double functor -- is a symmetric monoidal double…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Jürgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert , Yang Yang

We construct a modular functor which takes its values in the monoidal bicategory of finite categories, left exact functors and natural transformations. The modular functor is defined on bordisms that are 2-framed. Accordingly we do not need…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Jürgen Fuchs , Gregor Schaumann , Christoph Schweigert

We prove that the notion of Drinfeld center defines a functor from the category of indecomposable multi-tensor categories with morphisms given by bimodules to that of braided tensor categories with morphisms given by monoidal bimodules.…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Liang Kong , Hao Zheng

We present a general framework for TQFT and related constructions using the language of monoidal categories. We construct a topological category C and an algebraic category D, both monoidal, and a TQFT functor is then defined as a certain…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. F. Picken , P. A. Semiao

In [arXiv:1509.02937], the notion of a module tensor category was introduced as a braided monoidal central functor $F\colon \mathcal{V}\longrightarrow \mathcal{T}$ from a braided monoidal category $\mathcal{V}$ to a monoidal category…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Sebastian Heinrich

This lecture series is based on joint work in progress with Shaul Barkan, as well as work in progress of the author. The five sections of these notes correspond to the five lectures, but more details have been added. $2$-dimensional…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Jan Steinebrunner

Modular functors are traditionally defined as systems of projective representations of mapping class groups of surfaces that are compatible with gluing. They can formally be described as modular algebras over central extensions of the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Adrien Brochier , Lukas Woike

In this work, using the functoriality of Drinfeld center of fusion categories, we generalize an earlier result on the functoriality of full center of simple separable algebras in a fixed fusion category to all fusion categories. This…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Liang Kong , Wei Yuan , Hao Zheng

A $d$-dimensional invertible topological field theory is a functor from the symmetric monoidal $(\infty,n)$-category of $d$-bordisms (embedded into $\mathbb{R}^\infty$ and equipped with a tangential $(X,\xi)$-structure) which lands in the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Christopher Schommer-Pries

We use modified traces to renormalize Lyubashenko's closed 3-manifold invariants coming from twist non-degenerate finite unimodular ribbon categories. Our construction produces new topological invariants which we upgrade to 2+1-TQFTs under…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Marco De Renzi , Azat M. Gainutdinov , Nathan Geer , Bertrand Patureau-Mirand , Ingo Runkel

A 3-dimensional topological quantum field theory (TQFT) is a symmetric monoidal functor from the category of 3-cobordisms to the category of vector spaces. Such TQFTs provide in particular numerical invariants of closed 3-manifolds such as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Mickael Lallouche

For a braided tensor category C and a subcategory K there is a notion of centralizer C_C(K), which is a full tensor subcategory of C. A pre-modular tensor category is known to be modular in the sense of Turaev iff the center Z_2(C):=C_C(C)…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Mueger

Given a fusion category $\mathcal{C}$ and an indecomposable $\mathcal{C}$-module category $\mathcal{M}$, the fusion category $\mathcal{C}^*_\mathcal{M}$ of $\mathcal{C}$-module endofunctors of $\mathcal{M}$ is called the (Morita) dual…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-10-06 César Galindo , Julia Yael Plavnik

We construct an exact tensor functor from the category $\mathcal{A}$ of finite-dimensional graded modules over the quiver Hecke algebra of type $A_\infty$ to the category $\mathscr C_{B^{(1)}_n}$ of finite-dimensional integrable modules…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-19 Masaki Kashiwara , Myungho Kim , Se-jin Oh

We construct and study a new family of TQFTs based on nilpotent highest weight representations of quantum sl(2) at a root of unity indexed by generic complex numbers. This extends to cobordisms the non-semi-simple invariants defined in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Christian Blanchet , Francesco Costantino , Nathan Geer , Bertrand Patureau-Mirand

We develop the theory of Hopf bimodules for a finite rigid tensor category C. Then we use this theory to define a distinguished invertible object D of C and an isomorphism of tensor functors ?^{**} and D tensor ^{**}? tensor D^{-1}. This…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-05-19 Pavel Etingof , Dmitri Nikshych , Viktor Ostrik

We show that the complete bornological convolution algebras of Lie groupoids and convolution bimodules of groupoid bibundles define a monoidal functor from the 2-category of differentiable stacks to the Morita 2-category of complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-29 David Aretz , Christian Blohmann

In this paper we consider a construction in an arbitrary triangulated category T which resembles the notion of a Moore spectrum in algebraic topology. Namely, given a compact object C of T satisfying some finite tilting assumptions, we…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-03 David Pauksztello

We investigate the relationship between the algebra of tensor categories and the topology of framed 3-manifolds. On the one hand, tensor categories with certain algebraic properties determine topological invariants. We prove that fusion…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Christopher L. Douglas , Christopher Schommer-Pries , Noah Snyder

In this paper we study a toy categorical version of Lusztig's induction and restriction functors for character sheaves, but in the abstract setting of multifusion categories. Let $\mathscr{C}$ be an indecomposable multifusion category and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Tanmay Deshpande
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