The pre-Tannakian and semisimplicity conjecture for symplectic interpolation categories

Fix a finite field F\mathbf{F} of odd cardinality qq. For n0n\geq 0, let Hn=Sp2n(F)H_n=\operatorname{\mathbf{Sp}}_{2n}(\mathbf{F}), let knk_n be an algebraically closed field, and let Tn\mathcal{T}_n be the category of finite-dimensional representations of HnH_n over knk_n. Let Xn=kn[Vn]X_n=k_n[V_n] for Vn=F2nV_n=\mathbf{F}^{2n}, choose an ultrafilter F\mathcal{F} on N\mathbf{N}, and let kk be the characteristic-zero ultraproduct of the knk_n. Let T\mathcal{T} be the tensor subcategory generated by X=(Xn)n0X=(X_n)_{n\geq 0} in the ultraproduct of the Tn\mathcal{T}_n, and let tkt\in k be the categorical dimension of XX, represented by (q2n)n1(q^{2n})_{n\geq 1}. The pre-Tannakian and semisimplicity conjecture. If t0t\neq 0, then T\mathcal{T} is pre-Tannakian and has enough projective objects. Moreover, if tt is not of the form q2nq^{2n} with nNn\in\mathbf{N}, then T\mathcal{T} is semisimple. The conjecture seeks a structural description of these interpolation categories, including their projective objects and the exceptional parameters at which semisimplicity can fail.

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Nate Harman and Andrew Snowden, “Classical interpolation categories”, arXiv:2507.12216 (2025).

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