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The Art of Bad Art: Diagrammatics in Mathematical Physics
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0727-5835
2024 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The purpose of a proof is to reduce the complexity of a statement until it becomes a sequence of trivialities. To this end, the choice of notation, diagrams and overall paradigm can aid in conveying large amounts of information in a simple manner. This compilation thesis focuses on the choice of visual tools to convey algebraic results in the context of mathematical physics, using a categorical paradigm with various topological semantics. The topics range from covering known results in knot theory, abstract diagram categories and low-dimensional topological quantum field theory, to novel results such as the topological rack exclusion principle, tetrahedral symmetry of framed associators and new diagrammatics for graded-monoidal categories based on the Kleisli presentation.We demonstrate how these diagrammatic methods can be used to simplify algebraic proofs and communicate across disciplines.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University , 2024. , p. 38
Keywords [en]
Quantum Algebra, Category Theory, Supercategories, Knot Theory, Mathematical Physics, TQFT
National Category
Mathematics
Research subject
Mathematics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-232734ISBN: 978-91-8014-907-5 (print)ISBN: 978-91-8014-908-2 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-232734DiVA, id: diva2:1891463
Public defence
2024-09-25, lärosal 17, hus 2, plan 2, Albano, Albanovägen 20, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2024-09-02 Created: 2024-08-22 Last updated: 2024-08-27Bibliographically approved
List of papers
1. Thesaurus racks: Categorizing rack objects
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Thesaurus racks: Categorizing rack objects
2021 (English)In: Journal of knot theory and its ramifications, ISSN 0218-2165, Vol. 30, no 04, article id 2150019Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We define and explore rack objects internal to categories with products. In demonstration, we classify the group-racks, and use homotopy to prove both existence and exclusion theorems for path-connected topological racks.

Keywords
Category theory, rack theory, categorical racks
National Category
Mathematics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-196371 (URN)10.1142/S021821652150019X (DOI)000661627800002 ()
Available from: 2021-09-06 Created: 2021-09-06 Last updated: 2024-08-22Bibliographically approved
2. Tetrahedral symmetry of 6j-symbols in fusion categories
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Tetrahedral symmetry of 6j-symbols in fusion categories
2023 (English)In: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, ISSN 0022-4049, E-ISSN 1873-1376, Vol. 227, no 1, article id 107112Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We establish tetrahedral symmetries of 6j-symbols for arbitrary fusion categories under minimal assumptions. As a convenient tool for our calculations we introduce the notion of a veined fusion category, which is generated by a finite set of simple objects but is larger than its skeleton. Every fusion category C contains veined fusion subcategories that are monoidally equivalent to C and which suffice to compute many categorical properties for C. The notion of a veined fusion category does not assume the presence of a pivotal structure, and thus in particular does not assume unitarity. We also exhibit the geometric origin of the algebraic statements for the 6j-symbols. 

Keywords
6j-symbols, Fusion categories, Monoidal categories, Tetrahedral symmetry
National Category
Mathematics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-206326 (URN)10.1016/j.jpaa.2022.107112 (DOI)2-s2.0-85130414419 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2022-06-21 Created: 2022-06-21 Last updated: 2024-08-22Bibliographically approved
3. A Graded Schur Lemma and a graded-monoidal structure for induced modules over graded-commutative algebras
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A Graded Schur Lemma and a graded-monoidal structure for induced modules over graded-commutative algebras
(English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

We consider algebras and Frobenius algebras, internal to a monoidal category, that are graded over a finite abelian group. For the case that A is a twisted group algebra in a linear abelian monoidal category we obtain a graded generalization of the Schur Lemma for the category of induced A-modules. We further show that if the monoidal category is braided and A is commutative up to a bicharacter of the grading group, then the category of induced A-modules can be endowed with a graded-monoidal structure that is twisted by the bicharacter. In the particular case that the grading group is Z/2Z, these findings reproduce known results about superalgebras and super-monoidal structures. 

Keywords
Quantum Algebra, Category Theory, Supercategories
National Category
Mathematics
Research subject
Mathematics; Physics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-232733 (URN)
Available from: 2024-08-22 Created: 2024-08-22 Last updated: 2024-08-22

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