Quantum Groups and Knot Theory Lecture: Week
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This week in class we treat quantum traces and dimensions in general ribbon categories (from the syllabus of week 46, see also [2, Chapter 6]) and we define the general notion of ribbon algebras and discuss how these give rise relation to ribbon categories. This material will be used in later to give some important explicit constructions of ribbon categories. The syllabus of this week 47 contains material that is not covered in [2] (in particular, this week the numbering of the syllabus does not refer to [2]). A good source for additional reading is [1].
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