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On Braided and Ribbon Unitary Fusion Categories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

César Galindo
César Galindo*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia e-mail: cn.galindo1116@uniandes.edu.cocesarneyit@gmail.com
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Abstract

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We prove that every braiding over a unitary fusion category is unitary and every unitary braided fusion category admits a unique unitary ribbon structure.

Keywords

20F3616W3018D10fusion categoriesbraided categoriesmodular categories
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , 01 September 2014 , pp. 506 - 510
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2014

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