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What's the relation between half-twists, star structures and bar involutions on Hopf algebras?
A star structure on a Hopf algebra is an antilinear antiautomorphism squaring to 1 and satisfying some further axioms. A Hopf algebra with a star structure is then a star algebra and a Hopf algebra in ...
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When are the braid relations in a quasitriangular Hopf algebra equivalent?
Quasitriangular Hopf algebras have to satisfy, amongst other conditions, the following equations:
$$(\Delta \otimes \mathrm{id}) (R) = R_{13} R_{23}$$
$$(\mathrm{id} \otimes \Delta) (R) = R_{13} R_{12}...
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When does a monoidal functor between ribbon categories preserve cups and caps, but not necessarily braidings?
Imagine a monoidal functor between ribbon categories (i.e. monoidal, with a braiding, a twist and compatible left and right duals). An important example would be the restriction functor from the ...