English

Unitary braided-enriched monoidal categories

Category Theory 2022-09-02 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Braided-enriched monoidal categories were introduced in work of Morrison-Penneys, where they were characterized using braided central functors. Recent work of Kong-Yuan-Zhang-Zheng and Dell extended this characterization to an equivalence of 2-categories. Since their introduction, braided-enriched fusion categories have been used to describe certain phenomena in topologically ordered systems in theoretical condensed matter physics. While these systems are unitary, there was previously no general notion of unitarity for enriched categories in the literature. We supply the notion of unitarity for enriched categories and braided enriched monoidal categories and extend the above 2-equivalence to the unitary setting.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2208.14992,
  title  = {Unitary braided-enriched monoidal categories},
  author = {Zachary Dell and Peter Huston and David Penneys},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.14992},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

45 pages; numerous figures

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