Sean Sanford

Sean Sanford works in higher category theory, a branch of pure mathematics that studies algebraic structures with layers of relationships (categories of categories) rather than just objects and simple maps between them. Recent work focuses on tensor categories, fusion categories, and their higher-dimensional generalizations, often examining how these structures behave over fields other than the complex numbers and how they connect to ideas from mathematical physics such as quantum symmetry and topological field theory.

Publication output has grown sharply and recently, rising from no recorded papers between 2017 and 2022 to a steady output of several papers per year from 2023 through 2026.

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