Wednesday, 1 December 2010

qa.quantum algebra - Can "premodular" be relaxed as a condition for uniqueness of Bruguieres/Mueger modularization?

I think this is a counterexample to the result I was looking for. Let C be the idempotent completion of TL_{-1}, the Temperley-Lieb category with loop value -1. (Or equivalently, the category of finite dimensional representations of U_q(sl_2) where q is an third root of unity.)



Let D_1 be the quotient of C by negligibles. This category is just Rep(Z/2) but with the dimension of the nontrivial rep being -1.



Let B be the Fibonacci category and let B' be its Galois conjugate, let x and x' be the nontrivial objects. Let D_2 be the Deligne tensor product of B and B'. Let F_2 be the functor sending V_2 to $x boxtimes x'$, this exists by the universal property of Temperley-Lieb (i.e. $x boxtimes x'$ is symmetrically self-dual and has quantum dimension -1). This functor is dominant because $F_2(V_2 otimes V_2)$ has every object of D_2 as a summand.



As Victor Ostrik points out F_2 is not a ribbon functor, so this is not a counterexample.

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