Categorical aspects of compact quantum groups

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Abstract: We show that either of the two reasonable choices for the category of compact quantum groups is nice enough to allow for a plethora of universal constructions, all obtained "by abstract nonsense" via the adjoint functor theorem. This approach both recovers constructions which have appeared in the literature, such as the quantum Bohr compactification of a locally compact semigroup, and provides new ones, such as the coproduct of a family of compact quantum groups, and the compact quantum group freely generated by a locally compact quantum space. In addition, we characterize epimorphisms and monomorphisms in the category of compact quantum groups.


The author shows that either of the two reasonable choices for the category of compact quantum groups is nice enough to allow for a plethora of universal constructions, all obtained ``by abstract nonsense via the adjoint functor theorem. This approach both produces new objects (such as the coproduct of a family of compact quantum groups or the compact quantum group freely generated by a locally compact quantum space) and recovers in a uniform setting constructions which have appeared in the literature, such as the quantum Bohr compactification of a locally compact semigroup. Tannakian descriptions of these universal constructions, and characterize epimorphisms and monomorphisms in the category of compact quantum groups are also provided.



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