Reconstruction of tensor categories from their structure invariants

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how to uniquely reconstruct finite rank tensor categories over an algebraically closed field from their Green ring, Auslander algebra, and associator system, providing explicit construction methods.

Contribution

It introduces a method to reconstruct tensor categories from structure invariants and conditions, extending the understanding of tensor category classification.

Findings

Reconstruction of tensor categories from invariants and associator systems.

Explicit construction of tensor categories from quadruples satisfying certain conditions.

Necessary and sufficient conditions for tensor category equivalence.

Abstract

In this paper, we study tensor (or monoidal) categories of finite rank over an algebraically closed field $\mathbb F$. Given a tensor category $\mathcal{C}$, we have two structure invariants of $\mathcal{C}$: the Green ring (or the representation ring) $r(\mathcal{C})$ and the Auslander algebra $A(\mathcal{C})$ of $\mathcal{C}$. We show that a Krull-Schmit abelian tensor category $\mathcal{C}$ of finite rank is uniquely determined (up to tensor equivalences) by its two structure invariants and the associated associator system of $\mathcal{C}$. In fact, we can reconstruct the tensor category $\mathcal{C}$ from its two invarinats and the associator system. More general, given a quadruple $(R, A, \phi, a)$ satisfying certain conditions, where $R$ is a $\mathbb{Z}_+$-ring of rank $n$, $A$ is a finite dimensional $\mathbb F$-algebra with a complete set of $n$ primitive orthogonal idempotents, $\phi$ is an algebra map from $A\otimes_{\mathbb F}A$ to an algebra $M(R, A, n)$ constructed from $A$ and $R$, and $a=\{a_{i,j,l}|1< i,j,l<n\}$ is a family of "invertible" matrices over $A$, we can construct a Krull-Schmidt and abelian tensor category $\mathcal C$ over $\mathbb{F}$ such that $R$ is the Green ring of $\mathcal C$ and $A$ is the Auslander algebra of $\mathcal C$. In this case, $\mathcal C$ has finitely many indecomposable objects (up to isomorphisms) and finite dimensional Hom-spaces. Moreover, we will give a necessary and sufficient condition for such two tensor categories to be tensor equivalent.