An alternative description of braided monoidal categories

DOI10.1007/S10485-013-9338-3MaRDI QIDQ2350313zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ingo Runkel, Alexei Davydov

Publication date 19 June 2015

Published in Applied Categorical Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5969

zbMATH Keywords

b-categorybraided monoidal categoryYang-Baxter equationZamolodchikov's tetrahedron equation

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Abstract: We give an alternative presentation of braided monoidal categories. Instead of the usual associativity and braiding we have just one constraint (the b-structure). In the unital case, the coherence conditions for a b-structure are shown to be equivalent to the usual associativity, unit and braiding axioms. We also discuss the next dimensional version, that is, b-structures on bicategories. As an application, we show how special b-categories result in the Yang-Baxter equation, and how special b-bicategories produce Zamolodchikov's tetrahedron equation. Finally, we define a cohomology theory (the b-cohomology) which plays a role analogous to the one abelian group cohomology has for braided monoidal categories.

Review text

An algebra (not necessarily unital or associative) \(A\) is called a b-algebra if its multiplication satisfies \(a(bc)=b(ac)\) for \(a,b,c\in A\). It is not hard to show that if a b-algebra \(A\) has a right unit then it is commutative and associative. The categorical version of an associative commutative algebra is a braided monoidal category. Therefore, if we can categorify the concept b-algebra then we will get another kind of description of braided monoidal category. This is indeed the main purpose of this paper. Precisely, the authors defined the concept b-category in this paper and showed that a b-category with right unit is the same as a braided monoidal category. Moreover, the authors defined b-bicategories and gave some applications of these new concepts.

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