Tensor Categorie

Overview & Synopsis

This note covers the following topics, and nbsp, Monoidal categories, The pentagon axiom, Basic properties of unit objects in monoidal categories, monoidal categories, Monoidal functors, equivalence of monoidal categories, Morphisms of monoidal functors, MacLanes strictness theorem, The MacLane coherence theorem, Invertible objects, Exactness of the tensor product, Semisimplicity of the unit object, Groupoids, Finite abelian categories and exact faithful functors, Fiber functors, Hopf algebras, Pointed tensor categories and pointed Hopf algebras, Chevalleys theorem, The AndruskiewitschSchneider conjecture, The CartierKostant theorem, Pivotal categories and dimensions, Spherical categories and Grothendieck rings of semisimple tensor categories.