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Inspired by the study of vertex operator algebra extensions, we answer the question of when the category of local modules over a commutative exact algebra in a braided finite tensor category is a (non-semisimple) modular tensor category.…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Kenichi Shimizu , Harshit Yadav

We develop the theory of module categories over a Grothendieck-Verdier category, i.e. a monoidal category with a dualizing object and hence a duality structure more general than rigidity. Such a category C comes with two monoidal structures…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Jürgen Fuchs , Gregor Schaumann , Christoph Schweigert , Simon Wood

A category N of labeled (oriented) trivalent graphs (nets) or ribbon graphs is extended by new generators called fusing, braiding, twist and switch with relations which can be called Moore--Seiberg relations. A functor to N is constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-22 Volodymyr Lyubashenko

In this paper we study the relative tensor product of module categories over braided fusion categories using, in part, the notion of the relative center of a module category. In particular we investigate the canonical tensor category…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Justin Greenough

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

We study tensor structures on (Rep G)-module categories defined by actions of a compact quantum group G on unital C*-algebras. We show that having a tensor product which defines the module structure is equivalent to enriching the action of…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Sergey Neshveyev , Makoto Yamashita

We develop a representation theory of categories as a means to explore characteristic structures in algebra. Characteristic structures play a critical role in isomorphism testing of groups and algebras, and their construction and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Peter A. Brooksbank , Heiko Dietrich , Joshua Maglione , E. A. O'Brien , James B. Wilson

We show that direct limit completions of vertex tensor categories inherit vertex and braided tensor category structures, under conditions that hold for example for all known Virasoro and affine Lie algebra tensor categories. A consequence…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Thomas Creutzig , Robert McRae , Jinwei Yang

After a brief review of recent rigorous results concerning the representation theory of rational chiral conformal field theories (RCQFTs) we focus on pairs (A,F) of conformal field theories, where F has a finite group G of global symmetries…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Mueger

We review the construction of braided tensor categories and modular tensor categories from representations of vertex operator algebras, which correspond to chiral algebras in physics. The extensive and general theory underlying this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Yi-Zhi Huang , James Lepowsky

We introduce the notion of a quasi-Frobenius algebra in a finite tensor category $\mathcal{C}$ and give equivalent conditions for an algebra in $\mathcal{C}$ to be quasi-Frobenius. A quasi-Frobenius algebra in $\mathcal{C}$ is not…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Kenichi Shimizu

We give a review of some recent developments in the theory of tensor categories. The topics include realizability of fusion rings, Ocneanu rigidity, module categories, weak Hopf algebras, Morita theory for tensor categories, lifting theory,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-08-19 Damien Calaque , Pavel Etingof

Let $V$ be a vertex operator algebra satisfying suitable conditions such that in particular its module category has a natural vertex tensor category structure, and consequently, a natural braided tensor category structure. We prove that the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Yi-Zhi Huang , Alexander Kirillov , James Lepowsky

We introduce a finiteness property for braided fusion categories, describe a conjecture that would characterize categories possessing this, and verify the conjecture in a number of important cases. In particular we say a category has F if…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-09-12 Deepak Naidu , Eric C. Rowell

We generalize the tensor product theory for modules for a vertex operator algebra previously developed in a series of papers by the first two authors to suitable module categories for a ``conformal vertex algebra'' or even more generally,…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yi-Zhi Huang , James Lepowsky , Lin Zhang

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 Tannakian category is an abelian tensor category equipped with a fiber functor and additional structures which ensure that it is equivalent to the category of representations of some affine groupoid scheme acting on the spectrum of a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Daniel Schäppi

The Landau-Ginzburg/Conformal Field Theory correspondence predicts tensor equivalences between categories of matrix factorisations of certain polynomials and categories associated to the $N=2$ supersymmetric conformal field theories. We…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Ana Ros Camacho , Thomas A. Wasserman

We generalize the notion of ends and coends in category theory to the realm of module categories over finite tensor categories. We call this new concept "module (co)end". This tool allows us to give different proofs to several known results…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Noelia Bortolussi , Martín Mombelli

We incorporate a category of certain modules for an affine Lie algebra, of a certain fixed non-positive-integral level, considered by Kazhdan and Lusztig, into the representation theory of vertex operator algebras, by using the logarithmic…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lin Zhang