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Equivariant categories from categorical group actions on monoidal categories

Quantum Algebra 2013-05-06 v1

Abstract

G-equivariant modular categories provide the input for a standard method to construct 3d homotopy field theories. Virelizier constructed a G-equivariant category from the action of a group G on a Hopf algebra H by Hopf algebra automorphisms. The neutral component of his category is the Drinfeld center of the category of H-modules. We generalize this construction to weak actions of a group G on an arbitrary monoidal category C by (possibly non-strict) monoidal auto-equivalences and obtain a G-equivariant category with neutral component the Drinfeld center of C.

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@article{arxiv.1305.0679,
  title  = {Equivariant categories from categorical group actions on monoidal categories},
  author = {Alexander Barvels},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.0679},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

27 pages, many figures

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