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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2011

    briefly added something to fusion category. See also this blog comment.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2021

    added pointer to:

    diff, v29, current

    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeSep 9th 2022

    added pointer to:

    (maybe we should have a dedicated entry for braided fusion categories – not sure)

    diff, v33, current

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeSep 9th 2022

    oh, sorry, this reference should be included via anyonic topological order via braided fusion categories – references – will fix

    diff, v33, current

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2023

    added references on fusion 2-categories:

    diff, v37, current

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    • CommentAuthorperezl.alonso
    • CommentTimeOct 12th 2023

    It is known that one can define a fusion category up to equivalence by considering GG-graded vector spaces for GG a finite group and taking the associator to be defined by a cohomology class of H 3(G,k ×)H^3(G,k^{\times}). I am somewhat confused by the actual construction leading to this statement. Is this to be understood as a construction that takes as input GG and a cocycle so that if the cocycles are in the same class then the corresponding fusion categories are equivalent but not isomorphic? Usually the notion of isomorphism of categories is too strong, so it makes me wonder if there is a refined notion of fusion category constructed in a similar way such that they are only equivalent to other fusion categories constructed from the same cocycle, not only the same class.

    • CommentRowNumber7.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeOct 12th 2023
    • (edited Oct 12th 2023)

    For reference, I have slightly expanded our statement of this example (now here), which originates probably with Etingof, Nikshych & Ostrik 2005, item 1. on p. 584 (p. 4 in the pdf).

    Yes, up to equivalence, these fusion categories should depend on the cohomology class of the 3-cocycle only.

    It’s not clear to me how one would reasonably restrict the notion of equivalence such as to retain the actual cocycle. And why would you want to do this?

    diff, v39, current

    • CommentRowNumber8.
    • CommentAuthorperezl.alonso
    • CommentTimeOct 12th 2023

    This comes as a confusion I have regarding some computations on a project related to generalized symmetries I’m currently working on, in particular related to the concept of dual or quantum symmetry. But I can’t really phrase out a concrete question to ask here just yet without first sorting out the issue (that I highlighted couple of times in the nLab entry) that all that literature effectively ignores the need for concretely defining “action” for these things (in a sense, it’s like talking about GG-symmetries by just concentrating on properties of GG and not of a GG-action). I guess I just got ahead of myself by asking the question in #6.

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    • CommentAuthorperezl.alonso
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2023
    • (edited Nov 4th 2023)

    Is there an analogous concept but for categories enriched over virtual vector spaces? I think this and an analog of Turaev-Viro would turn out to be relevant for e.g. global symmetries of theories quantized in K-theory.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2023

    Not that I know of.

    But depending on what you have in mind it may be that you could do with super-vector spaces instead of virtual vector spaces?

    In that case there is a notion of “superfusion category” and there is a good general theory such as Deligne’s theorem on tensor categories.

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    • CommentAuthorperezl.alonso
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2023

    Maybe. I was thinking what a functorial field theory valued in virtual vector spaces is supposed to be and whether this would be related to the usual assumptions of positive level on CS/WZW.

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    • CommentAuthorperezl.alonso
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2024

    Re#7: I got a better answer than #8, goes back to the paper by Majid about octonions as twisted group algebras. One of the main observations there is that the associator of the octonions, a group 3-cocycle ω\omega, is not exactly one (obviously, since they are not associative) but it is a coboundary, so that it defines a trivial cohomology class. If we take the construction of Vec [ω](ℤ 2 3)\text{Vec}_{[\omega]}(\mathbb{Z}_2^3), this will not care about ω\omega, only about [ω]=1[\omega]=1 and will return something equivalent to just Vec(ℤ 2 3)\text{Vec}(\mathbb{Z}_2^3). Since these categories are representation categories of (twisted) group algebras, the statement probably is something like, the untwisted algebra ℝ[ℤ 2 3]\mathbb{R}[\mathbb{Z}_2^3] and the twisted algebra ℝ α[ℤ 2 3]\mathbb{R}_{\alpha}[\mathbb{Z}_2^3] for ω=dα\omega=d\alpha are not isomorphic but Morita equivalent? But in any case, the fusion category construction seems to be too coarse to detect these distinctions?

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    • CommentAuthorperezl.alonso
    • CommentTimeMar 5th 2024

    clarified what the statement that multi-fusion categories are representation categories, and in particular what this means for the existence of fiber functors

    diff, v40, current

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    • CommentAuthorperezl.alonso
    • CommentTimeApr 15th 2024

    pointer

    • Agustina Czenky. Diagramatics for cyclic pointed fusion categories (2024). (arXiv:2404.08084).

    diff, v42, current

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    • CommentAuthorperezl.alonso
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2024

    pointer

    • Sean Sanford, Noah Snyder. Invertible Fusion Categories (2024). (arXiv:2407.02597).

    diff, v43, current

    • CommentRowNumber16.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2024

    have hyperlinked Noah Snyder and copied the item to his author page

    diff, v44, current

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