A reduced tensor product of braided fusion categories over a symmetric fusion category

<p>The main goal of this thesis is to construct a tensor product on the 2-category BFC-A of braided fusion categories containing a symmetric fusion category A. We achieve this by introducing the new notion of Z(A)-crossed braided categories. These are categories enriched over the Drinfeld cent...

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Main Author: Wasserman, T
Other Authors: Douglas, C
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
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description <p>The main goal of this thesis is to construct a tensor product on the 2-category BFC-A of braided fusion categories containing a symmetric fusion category A. We achieve this by introducing the new notion of Z(A)-crossed braided categories. These are categories enriched over the Drinfeld centre Z(A) of the symmetric fusion category. We show that Z(A) admits an additional symmetric tensor structure, which makes it into a 2-fold monoidal category. ByTannaka duality, A= Rep(G) (or Rep(G; w)) for a finite group G (or finite super-group (G,w)). Under this identication Z(A) = VectG[G], the category of G-equivariant vector bundles over G, and we show that the symmetric tensor product corresponds to (a super version of) to the brewise tensor product. We use the additional symmetric tensor product on Z(A) to define the composition in Z(A)-crossed braided categories, whereas the usual tensor product is used for the monoidal structure. We further require this monoidal structure to be braided for the switch map that uses the braiding in Z(A).</p> <p>We show that the 2-category Z(A)-XBF is equivalent to both BFC=A and the 2-category of (super)-G-crossed braided categories. Using the former equivalence, the reduced tensor product on BFC-A is dened in terms of the enriched Cartesian product of Z(A)-enriched categories on Z(A)-XBF.</p> <p>The reduced tensor product obtained in this way has as unit Z(A). It induces a pairing between minimal modular extensions of categories having A as their Mueger centre.</p>
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spelling oxford-uuid:58c6aae3-cb0e-4381-821f-f7291ff956572022-03-26T17:05:43ZA reduced tensor product of braided fusion categories over a symmetric fusion categoryThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:58c6aae3-cb0e-4381-821f-f7291ff95657Category TheoryMathematicsAlgebraic TopologyEnglishORA Deposit2017Wasserman, TDouglas, CTillmann, UMueger, M<p>The main goal of this thesis is to construct a tensor product on the 2-category BFC-A of braided fusion categories containing a symmetric fusion category A. We achieve this by introducing the new notion of Z(A)-crossed braided categories. These are categories enriched over the Drinfeld centre Z(A) of the symmetric fusion category. We show that Z(A) admits an additional symmetric tensor structure, which makes it into a 2-fold monoidal category. ByTannaka duality, A= Rep(G) (or Rep(G; w)) for a finite group G (or finite super-group (G,w)). Under this identication Z(A) = VectG[G], the category of G-equivariant vector bundles over G, and we show that the symmetric tensor product corresponds to (a super version of) to the brewise tensor product. We use the additional symmetric tensor product on Z(A) to define the composition in Z(A)-crossed braided categories, whereas the usual tensor product is used for the monoidal structure. We further require this monoidal structure to be braided for the switch map that uses the braiding in Z(A).</p> <p>We show that the 2-category Z(A)-XBF is equivalent to both BFC=A and the 2-category of (super)-G-crossed braided categories. Using the former equivalence, the reduced tensor product on BFC-A is dened in terms of the enriched Cartesian product of Z(A)-enriched categories on Z(A)-XBF.</p> <p>The reduced tensor product obtained in this way has as unit Z(A). It induces a pairing between minimal modular extensions of categories having A as their Mueger centre.</p>
spellingShingle Category Theory
Mathematics
Algebraic Topology
Wasserman, T
A reduced tensor product of braided fusion categories over a symmetric fusion category
title A reduced tensor product of braided fusion categories over a symmetric fusion category
title_full A reduced tensor product of braided fusion categories over a symmetric fusion category
title_fullStr A reduced tensor product of braided fusion categories over a symmetric fusion category
title_full_unstemmed A reduced tensor product of braided fusion categories over a symmetric fusion category
title_short A reduced tensor product of braided fusion categories over a symmetric fusion category
title_sort reduced tensor product of braided fusion categories over a symmetric fusion category
topic Category Theory
Mathematics
Algebraic Topology
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