The injective tensor product of normal representable bimodules over von Neumann algebras is shown to be normal. The usual Banach module projective tensor product of central representable bimodules over an Abelian C∗-algebra is shown to be representable. A normal version of the projective tensor product is introduced for central normal bimodules.

We introduce C∗-pseudo-multiplicative unitaries and concrete Hopf C∗-bimodules for the study of quantum groupoids in the setting of C∗-algebras. These unitaries and Hopf C∗-bimodules generalize multiplicative unitaries and Hopf C∗-algebras and are analogues of the pseudo-multiplicative unitaries and Hopf–von Neumann-bimodules studied by Enock, Lesieur and Vallin. To each C∗-pseudo-multiplicativ...

2 A bimodule realization of the Temperley-Lieb two-category 8 2.1 Ring A and two-dimensional cobordisms . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2 Flat tangles and the Temperley-Lieb category . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3 The Temperley-Lieb 2-category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.4 The ring H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.5 Projective H-modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

De tels bimodules interviennent dans la théorie cohomologique des algèbres d’opérateurs. Ils sont souvent appelés A − B bimodules d’opérateurs. Ici nous les appellerons plutôt A − B bimodules L matriciellement normés. Etant donné un A−B bimodule normé V , il est naturel de chercher des critères assurant l’existence d’une structure de A−B bimodule L matriciellemnt normé sur V compatible avec la ...

Given C-algebras A and B acting cyclically on Hilbert spaces H and K, respectively, we characterize completely isometric A, B-bimodule maps from B(K,H) into operator A, B-bimodules. We determine cogenerators in some classes of operator bimodules. For an injective cogenerator X in a suitable category of operator A, B-bimodules we show: if A, regarded as a Csubalgebra of Al(X) (adjointable left m...

Let A be a noetherian local commutative ring and let M be a suitable complex of A-modules. This paper proves that M is a dualizing complex for A if and only if the trivial extension A ⋉M is a Gorenstein Differential Graded Algebra. As a corollary follows that A has a dualizing complex if and only if it is a quotient of a Gorenstein local Differential Graded Algebra. Let A be a noetherian local ...

Given an additive equational category with a closed symmetric monoidal structure and a potential dualizing object, we find sufficient conditions that the category of topological objects over that category has a good notion of full subcategories of strong and weakly topologized objects and show that each is equivalent to the chu category of the original category with respect to the dualizing obj...

This paper describes the historical background and motivation involved in the discovery (or invention) of Chu categories. In 1975, I began a sabbatical leave at the ETH in Zürich, with the idea of studying duality in categories in some depth. By this, I meant not such things as the duality between Boolean algebras and Stone spaces, nor between compact and discrete abelian groups, but rather sel...

This paper is devoted to some fundumental calculation on 2-dimensional smoothable semi-log-terminal singularities. If we study minimal or canonical models of one parameter degeneration of algebraic surfaces, we must treat singularities that appear in the central fiber. Smoothable semi-log-terminal singularities are the singularities of the central fiber of the minimal model of degeneration, and...

The Soergel bimodules were introduced by Soergel in [9, 10] in the context of the infinite-dimensional representation theory of simple Lie algebra and Kazhdan-Lusztig theory. They have nice explicit expression as the tensor products of the rings of polynomials invariant under the action of a symmetric group, tensored over rings of the same form. Moreover, there are various quite different inter...