The monoidal center and the character algebra (Q2396809): Difference between revisions

As the author says in the Introduction, many results on Hopf algebras have been generalized in the setting of tensor categories. The paper under review is a new contribution in this way, giving a category-theoretical counterpart of the character theory. In order to do that, after a section of preliminaries, in Section \(3\) the author recalls the construction of the central Hopf (co)monad on a rigid monoidal category. In Section \(4\) he shows the first main result (Theorem 4.1 and its corollary), which states the injectivity of the linear map \[ \mathrm{ch}:G_{r_{k}}(\mathcal {C})\rightarrow CF(\mathcal {C}), [X]\mapsto \mathrm{ch}(X) (X\in \mathcal {C}), \] where \(\mathcal {C}\) is a pivotal finite tensor category over an algebraically closed field \(k\), \(G_{r_{k}}(\mathcal {C}):=k\otimes_Z G_r(\mathcal {C})\), being \(G_r(\mathcal {C})\) the Grothendieck ring of \(\mathcal {C}\), and \(CF(\mathcal {C})\) denotes the algebra of class functions. In Section \(5\), under the assumption that \(\mathcal {C}\) is unimodular, the author shows (Theorem 5.9) that the map \(\mathrm{ch}\) is an isomorphism if and only if \(\mathcal {C}\) is semisimple. Moreover, he obtains a Maschke-type theorem and a Radford-type trace formula. Finally, the last section is devoted to give applications of these results to fusion categories.