Monoidal categories in, and linking, geometry and algebra

zbMATH Open1267.18006arXiv1201.2991MaRDI QIDQ1932142FDOQ1932142

Authors: Ross H. Street 

Publication date: 17 January 2013

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2991

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zbMATH Keywords

cuspidal representationenriched categorymonoidal categorybraidingtopological quantum field theorystring diagramMackey functorduoidal categorylink invariantGreen functorfinite general linear groupJoyal speciesDay convolutionmanifold invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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