Transitive 2-representations of finitary 2-categories (Q2821664)

The authors investigate finitary \(2\)-categories over an algebraically closed field. For these categories they introduce a class of \(2\)-representations, called \textit{simple transitive \(2\)-represantations}, that they propose as a \(2\)-analogue for the class of irreducible representations of an algebra. A weak version of the classical Jordan-Hölder Theorem is obtained where the weak composition subquotients are simple transitive \(2\)-representations. The main result of the paper provides a characterization of simple transitive \(2\)-representations for suitable finitary \(2\)-categories including some \(2\)-category of Soergel bimodules, a family of quotients of \(2\)-Kac-Moody algebras and the \(2\)-category of projective functors on the category of modules over a finite-dimensional self-injective algebra.