Presheaves of symmetric tensor categories and nets of \(C^\ast\)-algebras
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Presheaves of symmetric tensor categories and nets of \(C^\ast\)-algebras
zbMATH Open document ID: 1349.46059
DOI: 10.4171/JNCG/189
author: Ezio Vasselli
published in: Journal of Noncommutative Geometry
publication date: 2015-05-22T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4302
review text: Summary: Motivated by algebraic quantum field theory, we study presheaves of symmetric tensor categories defined over the base of a space, intended as a spacetime. Any section of a presheaf (that is, any ``superselection sector'', in the applications that we have in mind) defines a holonomy representation whose triviality is measured by Cheeger-Chern-Simons characteristic classes, and a non-abelian unitary cocycle defining a Lie group gerbe. We show that, given an embedding in a presheaf of full subcategories of the one of Hilbert spaces, the section category of a presheaf is a Tannaka-type dual of a locally constant group bundle (the ``gauge group''), which may not exist and in general is not unique. This leads to the notion of gerbe of \(C^*\)-algebras, defined on the given base.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46L05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 18D10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 18F20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C08
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14F05
zbMATH DE Number: 6439497
zbMATH Keywords: net of \(C^\ast\)-algebras
zbMATH Keywords: presheaf
zbMATH Keywords: duality
zbMATH Keywords: gerbe
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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OpenAlex ID: W3101103459
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