The free 2-rig conjecture for representations of the special orthogonal group

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Let kk be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, let II be the unit for the tensor product, and let xx be an object of dimension nn equipped with an isomorphism Λn(x)≅I\Lambda^n(x)\cong I. Suppose also that xx is self-dual with symmetric counit ϵ ⁣:x⊗x→I\epsilon\colon x\otimes x\to I. Let Sx,xS_{x,x} denote the symmetry isomorphism. The special orthogonal representation 2-rig conjecture. The 2-rig Rep(SO(n,k))\mathsf{Rep}(\mathrm{SO}(n,k)) is the free 2-rig on an object xx with these properties; in particular, its symmetric counit satisfies

ϵ∘Sx,x=ϵ.\epsilon\circ S_{x,x}=\epsilon.

The source places this conjecture after the orthogonal-group statement under the algebraically closed characteristic-zero hypothesis, extending the proposed universal descriptions to another classical group.

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John C. Baez and Todd Trimble, “Tannaka Reconstruction and the Monoid of Matrices”, arXiv:2504.03094 (2025).

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