Seminar series
Date
Tue, 28 Oct 2025
14:00
14:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Petter Bergh
Organisation
NTNU
A finite tensor category is a suitably nice abelian category with a compatible monoidal structure. It makes perfect sense to define the representation type of such a category, as a measure of how complicated the category is in terms of its indecomposable objects. For example, finite representation type means that the category contains only finitely many indecomposable objects, up to isomorphism.
In this talk from Petter Bergh, we shall see that if a finite tensor category has finitely generated cohomology, and the Krull dimension of its cohomology ring is at least three, then the category is of wild representation type. This is a report on recent joint work with K. Erdmann, J. Plavnik, and S. Witherspoon.