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Flatness of alpha-induced bi-unitary connections and commutativity of Frobenius algebras July 30, 2024 (02:00 PM PDT - 03:00 PM PDT)
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Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/Virtual
Speaker(s) Yasuyuki Kawahigashi (the University of Tokyo)
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Flatness of alpha-induced bi-unitary connections and commutativity of Frobenius algebras

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Alpha-induction is a tensor functor arising from a Frobenius algebra on a braided fusion category to a new fusion category using braiding.  A bi-unitary connection consists of partial data of generalized quantum 6j-symbols and describes a commuting square in subfactor theory.  A finite family of bi-unitary connections gives operator-algebraic description of a fusion category.  Last year, I showed that if we have a commutative Frobenius algebra, then the resulting bi-unitary connection from alpha-induction is flat, which means that quantum 6j-symbols are in a certain canonical form.  I now show that the converse of this statement also holds.

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Flatness of alpha-induced bi-unitary connections and commutativity of Frobenius algebras