Transitive 2-representations of finitary 2-categories

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Abstract: In this article, we define and study the class of simple transitive 2-representations of finitary 2-categories. We prove a weak version of the classical Jordan-H"older Theorem where the weak composition subquotients are given by simple transitive 2-representations. For a large class of finitary 2-categories we prove that simple transitive 2-representations are exhausted by cell 2-representations. Finally, we show that this large class contains finitary quotients of 2-Kac-Moody algebras.


The authors investigate finitary \(2\)-categories over an algebraically closed field. For these categories they introduce a class of \(2\)-representations, called \textit{simple transitive \(2\)-represantations}, that they propose as a \(2\)-analogue for the class of irreducible representations of an algebra. A weak version of the classical Jordan-Hölder Theorem is obtained where the weak composition subquotients are simple transitive \(2\)-representations. The main result of the paper provides a characterization of simple transitive \(2\)-representations for suitable finitary \(2\)-categories including some \(2\)-category of Soergel bimodules, a family of quotients of \(2\)-Kac-Moody algebras and the \(2\)-category of projective functors on the category of modules over a finite-dimensional self-injective algebra.




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