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On Braided Monoidal 2-Categories

Pomorski, Kevin
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0539-9992
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1648881704301968

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Mathematics (Arts and Sciences).
In Topological Field Theories (TFTs), there is a well documented correlation between 3-dimensional TFTs and braided monoidal categories. While braided monoidal 2-categories have been expected to have applications to 4-dimensional TFTs, there are very few known examples of braided monoidal 2-categories. The major goal of this dissertation is to present a categorification of a result of Pareigis, 1995. Namely, that modules over a commutative algebra in a braided monoidal category form a braided monoidal category. The categorified statement is that pseudomodules over a braided pseudomonoid in a braided monoidal 2-category form a braided monoidal 2-category. This result would be an example of constructing braided monoidal 2-categories from existing braided monoidal 2-categories. We approach this by constructing a new language which simplifies some of the complexities coming from relative tensor products of pseudomodules. The relationships between monoidal categories and multicategories has been well documented in Leinster, 2004. We define the notion of a multi-2-category, as well as the notion of a braided multi-2-category. We then construct braided pseudomonoids in braided multi-2-categories and examine pseudomodules over them. The main theorem of the dissertation is that local pseudomodules over a braided pseudomonoid in a braided multi-2-category forms a braided multi-2-category. A second result is a revision to the Joyal-Street definition of a balanced 2-category. We give a coherence for balanced 2-categories which was omitted in the original definition.
Alexei Davydov (Advisor)
Sergio Lopez-Permouth (Committee Member)
Marcel Bischoff (Committee Member)
Nancy Sandler (Committee Chair)
81 p.
Mathematics
braided monoidal 2-categories; category theory; TQFT; multicategories; braided multicategories; multi-2-categories; braided multi-2-categories; balanced monoidal 2-category

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  • Pomorski, K. (2022). On Braided Monoidal 2-Categories [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1648881704301968

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pomorski, Kevin. On Braided Monoidal 2-Categories. 2022. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1648881704301968.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pomorski, Kevin. "On Braided Monoidal 2-Categories." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1648881704301968

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