The tensor-subcategory conjecture for injective annihilator maps

Let k\Bbbk be an algebraically closed field of characteristic p>0p>0, and let C\mathcal{C} be a tensor category of moderate growth over k\Bbbk. Let M(C)M^{\oplus}(\mathcal{C}) be its split Grothendieck semiring and TSpeckS\operatorname{TSpec}\Bbbk S_\infty the semiring of T-prime ideals. Let Verp\mathtt{Ver}_p be the Verlinde category.

Tensor-subcategory conjecture. If C\mathcal{C} is Frobenius exact and the annihilator map

TAnnC:M(C)TSpeckS\operatorname{TAnn}_{\mathcal{C}}:M^{\oplus}(\mathcal{C})\to\operatorname{TSpec}\Bbbk S_\infty

is injective, then C\mathcal{C} is a tensor subcategory of Verp\mathtt{Ver}_p, and hence is incompressible.

This is presented as a more tractable special case of the preceding conjecture. The source does not report a resolution, while noting that the relevant characteristic-zero analogy does not directly prove the positive-characteristic statement for p>3p>3.

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Primary source

Kevin Coulembier, “A special class of prime ideals for infinite symmetric group algebras”, arXiv:2507.03309 (2026).

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