%0 Journal Article %T Virtual braid groups of type B and weak categorification %A Anne-Laure Thiel %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %X We define virtual braid groups of type B and construct a morphism from such a group to the group of isomorphism classes of some invertible complexes of bimodules up to homotopy. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3680v2