The Hochschild complex of a finite tensor category

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Abstract: Modular functors, i.e. consistent systems of projective representations of mapping class groups of surfaces, have been constructed for non-semisimple modular categories already decades ago. Concepts from homological algebra have not been used in this construction although it is an obvious question how they should enter in the non-semisimple case. In the present paper, we elucidate the interplay between the structures from topological field theory and from homological algebra by constructing a homotopy coherent projective action of the mapping class group extSL(2,mathbbZ) of the torus on the Hochschild complex of a modular category. This is a further step towards understanding the Hochschild complex of a modular category as a differential graded conformal block for the torus. Moreover, we describe a differential graded version of the Verlinde algebra.


The authors study the Hochschild complex of a modular category. First they prove: for every braided finite tensor category \(\mathcal{C}\), the Hochschild complex \(\int^{X\in Proj \mathcal{C}}_{\mathbb{L}}\mathcal{C}(X,X)\) is naturally a non-unital \(\mathbb{E}_2\)-algebra in differential graded vector spaces. Then they prove their main result which is the following. The Hochschild complex \(\int^{X\in \mathrm{Proj} \mathcal{C}}_{\mathbb{L}}\mathcal{C}(X,X)\) of a modular category carries a canonical homotopy coherent projective action of the mapping class group \(SL(2, \mathbb{Z})\) of the torus. The proof of the main result depends on a detailed investigation of the Hochschild complex for a finite tensor category \(\mathcal{C}\). As a key tool, they introduce a specific projective resolution \(\int^{X\in \mathrm{Proj}\mathcal{C}}_{f\mathbb{L}}(X\otimes X^{\vee})\) of the canonical coend \(\mathbb{F}=\int^{X\in \mathcal{C}}(X\otimes X^{\vee})\) (see section \(3.2\) for the details).



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