ar X iv : h ep - t h / 93 10 16 4 v 2 2 2 Ju l 1 99 8 SPHERICAL CATEGORIES

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  • Bruce W. Westbury
  • JOHN W. BARRETT
  • BRUCE W. WESTBURY
چکیده

This paper is a study of monoidal categories with duals where the tensor product need not be commutative. The motivating examples are categories of representations of Hopf algebras. We introduce the new notion of a spherical category. In the first section we prove a coherence theorem for a monoidal category with duals following [MacLane 1963]. In the second section we give the definition of a spherical category, and construct a natural quotient which is also spherical. In the third section we define spherical Hopf algebras so that the category of representations is spherical. Examples of spherical Hopf algebras are involutory Hopf algebras and ribbon Hopf algebras. Finally we study the natural quotient in these cases and show it is semisimple.

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تاریخ انتشار 1999