On unimodular module categories

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Abstract: Let mathcalC be a finite tensor category and mathcalM an exact left mathcalC-module category. We call mathcalM unimodular if the finite multitensor category sfRexmathcalC(mathcalM) of right exact mathcalC-module endofunctors of mathcalM is unimodular. In this article, we provide various characterizations, properties, and examples of unimodular module categories. As our first application, we employ unimodular module categories to construct (commutative) Frobenius algebra objects in the Drinfeld center of any finite tensor category. When mathcalC is a pivotal category, and mathcalM is a unimodular, pivotal left mathcalC-module category, the Frobenius algebra objects are symmetric as well. Our second application is a classification of unimodular module categories over the category of finite dimensional representations of a finite dimensional Hopf algebra; this answers a question of Shimizu. Using this, we provide an example of a finite tensor category whose categorical Morita equivalence class does not contain any unimodular tensor category.


In the work under review, the author introduces the class of ``unimodular exact module categories and study them in depth. Explicitly, let \(\mathcal{C}\) be a finite tensor category and \(\mathcal{M}\) an exact left \(\mathcal{C}\)-module category, then \(\mathcal{M}\) is unimodular if the finite multitensor category \(\operatorname{Rex}_{\mathcal{C}}(\mathcal{M})\) of right exact \(\mathcal{C}\)-module endofunctors is unimodular. The author gives various equivalent definitions and examples, and proves some properties of these categories. As a notable application, the author provides a systematic method to constructs (commutative, special, symmetric) Frobenius algebras in the Drinfeld center of any finite tensor category. Such algebras are useful in \(2\)-dimensional rational Conformal Field Theories [\textit{J. Fuchs} et al., Nucl. Phys., B 646, No. 3, 353--497 (2002; Zbl 0999.81079)] and in 3-dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theories [\textit{N. Reshetikhin} and \textit{V. G. Turaev}, Invent. Math. 103, No. 3, 547--597 (1991; Zbl 0725.57007)]. The author explores in details the case \(C=\operatorname{Rep}(H)\), the category of representation of a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra \(H\). He classifies all its unimodular module categories. He uses at this point that every \(\operatorname{Rep}(H)\)-module category is equivalent to the category of representations of a left \(H\)-comodule algebra [\textit{N. Andruskiewitsch} and \textit{J. M. Mombelli}, J. Algebra 314, No. 1, 383--418 (2007; Zbl 1141.16024)]. As an example, he deduces that \(\operatorname{Rep}(T(\omega))\) does not admit unimodular module categories, where \(T(\omega)\) denotes a Taft algebra. It is worth noting that the author shows that tensor categories that are not unimodular can admit unimodular module categories.



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