Monoidal abelian envelopes

Abstract: The notion of an abelian envelope of a k-linear rigid monoidal category emerged rather recently from the constructions by Entova-Hinich-Serganova and Comes-Ostrik of universal tensor categories. They subsequently reappeared in a construction by Benson-Etingof of an intriguing family of incompressible tensor categories in characteristic 2. All of this clearly demanded a thorough exploration of this concept of abelian envelopes. In this talk I will report on recent progress on the matter due to a number of authors.

Mathematics

Audience: researchers in the topic

T-Rep: A midsummer night's session on representation theory and tensor categories

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We will have a discussion round after the first talk at 21:30 CEST.