A generalization of Gabriel's Galois covering functors. II: 2-categorical Cohen-Montgomery duality

Actions of groups and semigroups; invariant theory (associative rings and algebras) (16W22) Graded rings and modules (associative rings and algebras) (16W50)

Abstract: Given a group

G

, we define suitable 2-categorical structures on the class of all small categories with

G

-actions and on the class of all small

G

-graded categories, and prove that 2-categorical extensions of the orbit category construction and of the smash product construction turn out to be 2-equivalences (2-quasi-inverses to each other), which extends the Cohen-Montgomery duality.

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\textit{M. Cohen} and \textit{S. Montgomery} proved in [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 282, 237--258 (1984; Zbl 0533.16001)] that if \(G\) is a finite group of order \(n\), \(A\) is an algebra with a \(G\)-action and \(B\) is a \(G\)-graded algebra then \((A\ast G)\# G\) and \((B\#G)\ast G\) are isomorphic to the full matrix rings over \(A\), respectively over \(B\). A natural question is to find natural extensions of this result by replacing algebras by categories. The main aim of the present paper is to present such a generalization for \(2\)-categories of \(k\)-categories with \(G\)-actions, respectively to \(G\)-graded \(k\)-categories.

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