Spherical Categories

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1993-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9310164v2

Adv.Math.143:357-375,1999

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

16 pages. Minor corrections

Scientific paper

10.1006/aima.1998.1800

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 and the motivating application is the definition of 6j-symbols as used in topological field theories. 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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