Unitary braided-enriched monoidal categories

Authors Zachary E. Dell, Peter Huston, David Penneys

Publication date 31 August 2022

Enriched categories (over closed or monoidal categories) (18D20) String diagrams and graphical calculi (18M30) Dagger categories, categorical quantum mechanics (18M40) 2-categories, bicategories, double categories (18N10)

Abstract: Braided-enriched monoidal categories were introduced in work of Morrison-Penneys, where they were characterized using braided central functors. Recent work of Kong-Yuan-Zhang-Zheng and Dell extended this characterization to an equivalence of 2-categories. Since their introduction, braided-enriched fusion categories have been used to describe certain phenomena in topologically ordered systems in theoretical condensed matter physics. While these systems are unitary, there was previously no general notion of unitarity for enriched categories in the literature. We supply the notion of unitarity for enriched categories and braided enriched monoidal categories and extend the above 2-equivalence to the unitary setting.

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