Monoidal categories in, and linking, geometry and algebra

MaRDI QIDQ1932142zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ross H. Street

Publication date 17 January 2013

Published in Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2991, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bbms/1354031551

zbMATH Keywords

braidingcuspidal representationDay convolutionduoidal categoryenriched categoryfinite general linear groupGreen functorJoyal specieslink invariantMackey functormanifold invariantmonoidal categorystring diagramtopological quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Enriched categories (over closed or monoidal categories) (18D20) Hecke algebras and their representations (20C08) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

Abstract: This is a report on aspects of the theory and use of monoidal categories. The first section introduces the main concepts through the example of the category of vector spaces. String notation is explained and shown to lead naturally to a link between knot theory and monoidal categories. The second section reviews the light thrown on aspects of representation theory by the machinery of monoidal category theory, such as braidings and convolution. The category theory of Mackey functors is reviewed in the third section. Some recent material and a conjecture concerning monoidal centres is included. The fourth and final section looks at ways in which monoidal categories are, and might, be used for new invariants of low-dimensional manifolds and for the field theory of theoretical physics.

Review text

This paper is a survey of some recent developments in the theory of monoidal categories with applications and connections to various topics, including knot theory, representation theory, 3-manifold invariants, and conformal field theories. In the first section, the author provides basic background information on monoidal categories, string diagrams, duals, braidings, and tangles. Section 2 introduces promonoidal structures, Day convolution, and Hecke algebroids, and gives applications to the representation theory of the finite general linear group and Hall algebras. Sections 3 and 4 are concerned with monoidal centres, Mackey functors, and duoidal categories, motivated in part by the Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants. The paper also contains an extensive list of references.

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• String diagrams and categorification
• A skew-duoidal Eckmann-Hilton argument and quantum categories
• Monoidal categories and topological field theory
• A graphical calculus for semi-groupal categories
• Monoidal categories, symmetries, and compound physical systems
• Pointed Drinfeld center functor
• Affinization of monoidal categories
• Hopf categories
• The formal theory of multimonoidal monads
• Maschke type theorems for Hopf monoids
• Oplax Hopf Algebras
• Feynman categories and representation theory
• Monoidal functor categories and graphic Fourier transforms
• Topological invariants from higher categories
• Hopf polyads, Hopf categories and Hopf group monoids viewed as Hopf monads
• Drinfeld double for orbifolds
• A survey of categorical properties of \(\mathbb{L}\)-fuzzy relations
• Monoidal centres and groupoid-graded categories
• Pivotality, twisted centres, and the anti-double of a Hopf monad
• Pre-rigid monoidal categories
• The core groupoid can suffice
• Diagrammatic calculus and generalized associativity for higher-arity tensor operations
• The produoidal algebra of process decomposition
• Objective Mackey and Tambara functors via parametrized categories
• Categorical basis and semisimplicity
• Enriched monoidal categories. I: Centers
• On duoidal -categories
• Monads on higher monoidal categories
• Dendriform algebras relative to a semigroup
• Commutativity
• Weighted tensor products of Joyal species, graphs, and charades
• Hopf comonads on naturally Frobenius map-monoidales

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