Central Obstructions and Block-Complement Categories for Schur Covers
Manuscript 16 October 2026 · Online 16 October 2026
Abstract
We study explicit ways to replace the symmetric-group automorphisms of the category of finite sets and injections by their Schur double covers. If the central involution acts freely on a finite lift fibre of an injection of codimension \(d\), then the fibre cardinality is divisible by \(2^{\lfloor d/4\rfloor+1}\). Thus free two-sheeted morphism lifts, and uniformly polynomial-sized lift fibres, are impossible. We construct an ordinary category using unordered families of internally ordered four-element complement blocks, and a complex superlinear category using two-element blocks. Their composition laws follow from explicit coherent even lifts; the phase needed for pairs is not a group-theoretic section. Finally, a coherent Clifford quotient of the fully framed model has kernel requiring new relations in every rank \(n\geq 3\), with quotient dimension \((n-2)2^{n-2}\). Hence that model is not locally noetherian. Classical Schur, Clifford and spinoriality facts are credited. These results concern specified models; they do not establish a general spin representation-stability theory or settle the broad AIM construction program. This is an unrefereed preprint, with no absolute priority claim.
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- Affiliation
- Mercury Software GmbH
- Contact
- [email protected] · GitHub
- Result
- Complete theorems (specified models)
- Categories
- math.RT · math.CT
- Manuscript
- 16 October 2026
- Online release
- 16 October 2026
- Version
- 1.0
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Citation
Alper Ferudun, “Central Obstructions and Block-Complement Categories for Schur Covers,” EulerSolve Research Papers, AIM-REPRESENTATION_THEORY-0033, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23424378.
BibTeX
@misc{ferudun2026schurblocks,
author = {Ferudun, Alper},
title = {Central Obstructions and Block-Complement Categories for Schur Covers},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {EulerSolve Research Papers},
url = {https://eulersolve.org/papers/aim-representation_theory-0033/},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23424378},
note = {AIM-REPRESENTATION_THEORY-0033; unrefereed preprint}
}