Indecomposable objects in Khovanov–Sazdanovic's generalizations of Deligne's interpolation categories

Flake, Johannes; Laugwitz, Robert; Posur, Sebastian

Abstract

Khovanov and Sazdanovic recently introduced symmetric monoidal categories parameterized by rational functions and given by quotients of categories of two-dimensional cobordisms. These categories generalize Deligne's interpolation categories of representations of symmetric groups. In this paper, we classify indecomposable objects and identify the associated graded Grothendieck rings of Khovanov–Sazdanovic's categories through sums of representation categories over crossed products of polynomial rings over a general field. To obtain these results, we introduce associated graded categories for Krull–Schmidt categories with filtrations as a categorification of the associated graded Grothendieck ring, and study field extensions and Galois descent for Krull–Schmidt categories.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 19, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Feb 7, 2023
• Publication Date: Feb 15, 2023
• Deposit Date: Apr 5, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 8, 2024
• Journal: Advances in Mathematics
• Print ISSN: 0001-8708
• Electronic ISSN: 1090-2082
• Publisher: Elsevier BV
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 415
• Article Number: 108892
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2023.108892
• Keywords: Tensor categories; Deligne's interpolation categories; Cobordism categories; Galois descent; Krull–Schmidt categories
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/16229109
• Publisher URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000187082300035X?via%3Dihub