Measures on Cameron's treelike classes and applications to tensor categories
Abstract
Measures on Fra\"iss\'e classes are a key input in the Harman--Snowden (2022) construction of tensor categories. Treelike Fra\"iss\'e classes provide a particularly tractable source of examples. In this paper, we complete the classification of measures on Cameron's elementary treelike classes. In particular, for the class of node-colored rooted binary tree structures with colors, we classify measures by an explicit bijection with directed rooted trees edge-labeled by with a distinguished vertex, yielding distinct -valued measures. For each , we use a family of measures and their supports (where ) to construct the Karoubi envelopes , producing infinite families of semisimple tensor categories with superexponential growth that cannot be obtained via Deligne's interpolation of representation categories. We also prove the nonexistence of measures on the -colored tree class for and the labeled tree class , extending Snowden's results for uncolored trees.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.03690,
title = {Measures on Cameron's treelike classes and applications to tensor categories},
author = {Thanh Can and Thomas Rüd},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.03690},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
48 pages; comments are welcome