Cohomology and deformation theory of monoidal 2-categories I

Details Cohomology and deformation theory of monoidal 2-categories I Cohomology and deformation theory of monoidal 2-categories I

2002-04-09

arxiv.org/abs/math/0204099v2

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Quantum Algebra

56 pages, 12 figures; references are included, which didn't appear in the previous version by a mistake

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We define a cohomology for an arbitrary $K$-linear semistrict semigroupal 2-category $(\mathfrak{C},\otimes)$ (called in the paper a Gray semigroup) and show that its first order (unitary) deformations, up to the suitable notion of equivalence, are in one-one correspondence with the elements of the second cohomology group. Fundamental to the construction is a double complex, similar to Gerstenhaber-Schack's double complex for bialgebras. We also identify the cohomologies describing separately the deformations of the tensor product, the associator and the pentagonator. To obtain these results, a cohomology theory for an arbitrary $K$-linear unitary pseudofunctor is introduced describing its purely pseudofunctorial deformations, and generalizing Yetter's cohomology for semigroupal functors. The corresponding higher order obstructions will be considered in a future paper.

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