Tensor Algebras in Finite Tensor Categories

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper introduces methods for classifying actions of finite-dimensional Hopf algebras on path algebras of quivers and more generally on tensor algebras $T_B(V)$ where $B$ is semisimple. We work within the broader framewor...

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Main Authors: Etingof, Pavel, Kinser, Ryan, Walton, Chelsea
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134421
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Summary:<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper introduces methods for classifying actions of finite-dimensional Hopf algebras on path algebras of quivers and more generally on tensor algebras $T_B(V)$ where $B$ is semisimple. We work within the broader framework of finite (multi-)tensor categories $\mathcal{C}$, classifying tensor algebras in $\mathcal{C}$ in terms of $\mathcal{C}$-module categories. We obtain two classification results for actions of semisimple Hopf algebras: the first for actions that preserve the ascending filtration on tensor algebras and the second for actions that preserve the descending filtration on completed tensor algebras. Extending to more general fusion categories, we illustrate our classification result for tensor algebras in the pointed fusion categories $\textsf{Vec}_{G}^{\omega }$ and in group-theoretical fusion categories, especially for the representation category of the Kac–Paljutkin Hopf algebra.</jats:p>