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We define symmetric and exterior powers of categories, fitting into categorified Koszul complexes. We discuss examples and calculate the effect of these power operations on the categorical characters of matrix 2-representations.
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Much of this paper was written while Ganter held a position at Colby College, Maine, and was supported by the NSF grant DMS-0504539.
Kapranov was supported by NSF Grant DMS-0801198.
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GANTER, N., KAPRANOV, M. SYMMETRIC AND EXTERIOR POWERS OF CATEGORIES. Transformation Groups 19, 57–103 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00031-014-9255-z
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