The geometry of unitary 2-representations of finite groups and their 2-characters

DOI10.1007/S10485-009-9189-0zbMATH Open1220.57019arXiv0807.1329OpenAlexW2162078447MaRDI QIDQ633796FDOQ633796

Authors: Bruce Bartlett 

Publication date: 30 March 2011

Published in: Applied Categorical Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by topological quantum field theory, we investigate the geometric aspects of unitary 2-representations of finite groups on 2-Hilbert spaces, and their 2-characters. We show how the basic ideas of geometric quantization are `categorified' in this context: just as representations of groups correspond to equivariant line bundles, 2-representations of groups correspond to equivariant gerbes. We also show how the 2-character of a 2-representation can be made functorial with respect to morphisms of 2-representations. Under the geometric correspondence, the 2-character of a 2-representation corresponds to the geometric character of its associated equivariant gerbe. This enables us to show that the complexified 2-character is a unitarily fully faithful functor from the complexified homotopy category of unitary 2-representations to the category of unitary equivariant vector bundles over the group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1329

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zbMATH Keywords

TQFTadjunction2-categorygeometric quantization2-characterequivariant gerbeunitary 2-representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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