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The Lyubashenko Modular Functor for Drinfeld Centers via Non-Semisimple String-Nets

Quantum Algebra 2023-12-27 v1 Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP

Abstract

The Levin-Wen string-nets of a spherical fusion category C\mathcal{C} describe, by results of Kirillov and Bartlett, the representations of mapping class groups of closed surfaces obtained from the Turaev-Viro construction applied to C\mathcal{C}. We provide a far-reaching generalization of this statement to arbitrary pivotal finite tensor categories, including non-semisimple or non-spherical ones: We show that the finitely cocompleted string-net modular functor built from the projective objects of a pivotal finite tensor category is equivalent to Lyubashenko's modular functor built from the Drinfeld center Z(C)Z(\mathcal{C}).

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@article{arxiv.2312.14010,
  title  = {The Lyubashenko Modular Functor for Drinfeld Centers via Non-Semisimple String-Nets},
  author = {Lukas Müller and Christoph Schweigert and Lukas Woike and Yang Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.14010},
  year   = {2023}
}

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v1: 33 pages, 5 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-28T13:58:55.045Z