On simple transitive 2-representations of bimodules over the dual numbers (Q6070288)

Around 2010, \textit{V. Mazorchuk} and \textit{V. Miemietz} started a systematic study of representation theory of finitary 2-categories [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2016, No. 24, 7471--7498 (2016; Zbl 1404.18014); Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 368, No. 11, 7623--7644 (2016; Zbl 1365.18006); Math. Z. 282, No. 1--2, 411--434 (2016; Zbl 1375.18037); Mosc. Math. J. 14, No. 3, 595--615 (2014; Zbl 1342.17003); Compos. Math. 147, No. 5, 1519--1545 (2011; Zbl 1232.17015); Quantum Topol. 7, No. 1, 1--28 (2016; Zbl 1346.18009)]. Finitary 2-categories can be considered as natural 2-analogues of finite-dimensional algebras. The paper [\textit{V. Mazorchuk} and \textit{V. Miemietz}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 368, No. 11, 7623--7644 (2016; Zbl 1365.18006)] introduces the notion of \textit{simple transitive} 2-representations of finitary 2-categories, providing convincing arguments, including an adaption of the Jordan-Hölder theorem, of why these 2-representations are a natural 2-analogue of the notion of a simple module over an associatieve algebras, which motivated the natural problem of classification of simple transitvie 2-representations for various classes of finitary 2-categories [\textit{J. Zimmermann}, Commun. Algebra 47, No. 3, 1222--1237 (2019; Zbl 1409.18007); J. Pure Appl. Algebra 221, No. 3, 666--690 (2017; Zbl 1360.18008); \textit{X. Zhang}, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 222, No. 1, 97--130 (2018; Zbl 1386.18020); \textit{V. Mazorchuk} and \textit{V. Miemietz}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 368, No. 11, 7623--7644 (2016; Zbl 1365.18006); \textit{V. Mazorchuk} and \textit{K. Zhao}, Can. Math. Bull. 56, No. 3, 606--614 (2013; Zbl 1327.17006); \textit{V. Mazorchuk} et al., Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 36, No. 2, 387--405 (2020; Zbl 1440.18045); \textit{V. Mazorchuk} and \textit{X. Zhang}, Ukr. Math. J. 70, No. 12, 1873--1900 (2019; Zbl 1436.16017); \textit{V. Mazorchuk} and \textit{X. Zhang}, Kyoto J. Math. 60, No. 3, 965--995 (2020; Zbl 1460.18021); \textit{M. Mackaaij} and \textit{D. Tubbenhauer}, Can. J. Math. 71, No. 6, 1523--1566 (2019; Zbl 1512.20016); \textit{M. Mackaay} et al., J. Inst. Math. Jussieu 19, No. 6, 1793--1829 (2020; Zbl 1456.18016); \textit{M. Mackaay} and \textit{V. Mazorchuk}, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 221, No. 3, 565--587 (2017; Zbl 1404.18013); \textit{M. Mackaay} et al., Indiana Univ. Math. J. 68, No. 1, 1--33 (2019; Zbl 1472.18019); ``Simple transitive 2-representations of Soergel bimodules for finite Coxeter types'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1906.11468}; \textit{T. Kildetoft} et al., Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 371, No. 8, 5551--5590 (2019; Zbl 1409.18005)]. The smallest example of the algebra \(A\)\ for which the category \(A\)-mod-\(A\)\ is not finitary, but is, at least tame, is the algebra \(D:=\boldsymbol{k}\left[ x\right] /\left( x^{2}\right) \)\ of dual numbers. Although not being finitary itself, \(D\)-mod-\(D\)\ has a lot of finitary subcategories and subquotients. The principal objective in this paper is to understand simple transitive 2-representations of \(D\)-mod-\(D\)\ corresponding to simple transitive 2-representations of its finitary subquotients. The main result of the paper is Theorem 1 (\S 3.2) asserting that simple transitive 2-representations of \(D\)-mod-\(D\) with finitary apex are necessarily of rank 1 or 2, and in the last case, each such 2-representation is necessarily equivalent to a so-called cell 2-representaion. At this stage the author is not able to classify rank 1 simple transitive 2-representaions.