Australian Category Seminar

Deformation cohomology of tensor categories and extensions

Alexei Davydovยท14 December 2022

Deformation cohomology of tensor categories describe (first order) infinitesimal deformations of tensor categories, tensor functors and tensor natural transformations. In a recent paper Gainutdinov, Haferkamp and Schweigert showed that for a finite tensor category the deformation cohomology coincides with the self-extension groups in the monoidal centre. This fact can be used to prove vanishing of the deformation cohomology (Ocneanu rigidity) for fusion categories. In the talk I will report on the joint project with R. Street, which aims at extending the above results and provides other vanishing results for deformation cohomology.

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