Braided categorical groups and strictifying associators

DOI10.4310/HHA.2020.V22.N2.A19zbMATH Open1440.18034arXiv1911.00130MaRDI QIDQ2183497FDOQ2183497

Oliver Bräunling

Publication date: 27 May 2020

Published in: Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A key invariant of a braided categorical group is its quadratic form, introduced by Joyal and Street. We show that the categorical group is braided equivalent to a simultaneously skeletal and strictly associative one if and only if the polarization of this quadratic form is the symmetrization of a bilinear form. This generalizes the result of Johnson-Osorno that all Picard groupoids can simultaneously be strictified and skeletalized, except that in the braided case there is a genuine obstruction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00130

zbMATH Keywords

associatorstrictificationbraided categorical groupPicard groupoidskeletalization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Symmetric monoidal categories (19D23) Braided monoidal categories and ribbon categories (18M15)

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