Categorified trace for module tensor categories over braided tensor categories

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Abstract: Given a braided pivotal category mathcalC and a pivotal module tensor category mathcalM, we define a functor mathrmTrmathcalC:mathcalMomathcalC, called the associated categorified trace. By a result of Bezrukavnikov, Finkelberg and Ostrik, the functor mathrmTrmathcalC comes equipped with natural isomorphisms aux,y:mathrmTrmathcalC(xotimesy)omathrmTrmathcalC(yotimesx), which we call the traciators. This situation lends itself to a diagramatic calculus of `strings on cylinders', where the traciator corresponds to wrapping a string around the back of a cylinder. We show that mathrmTrmathcalC in fact has a much richer graphical calculus in which the tubes are allowed to branch and braid. Given algebra objects A and B, we prove that mathrmTrmathcalC(A) and mathrmTrmathcalC(AotimesB) are again algebra objects. Moreover, provided certain mild assumptions are satisfied, mathrmTrmathcalC(A) and mathrmTrmathcalC(AotimesB) are semisimple whenever A and B are semisimple.




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