Fusion Quivers

Abstract

We develop a categorical approach to quivers and their modules. Naturally this leads to a notion of an action of a monoidal category on quivers. Using this, we construct for a large class of quivers rigid monoidal structures on their categories of modules. This fusion product on the quiver modules induces a graded ring structure with duality and trace on the moduli spaces of semisimple quiver modules. Our approach allows to consider a class of relations on such fusion quivers that are compatible with the rigid monoidal structure. In particular we obtain a class of preprojective algebras with fusion product on their modules.