The Green rings of pointed tensor categories of finite type (Q392423)

The authors compute the Clebsch-Gordan formulae and present the Green rings of connected pointed tensor categories of finite type. These categories are actually the comodule categories of certain pointed coquasi-Hopf algebras of finite corepresentation type, or equivalently the module categories of some elementary quasi-Hopf algebras of finite representation type. As examples, one may take the module categories of the Taft and generalized Taft algebras. These tensor categories can also be presented by quiver representations, and this point of view is useful for the computations. More specifically, let \(n>0\) be a positive integer, and let \(Z_n\) be the cyclic Hopf quiver determined by the cyclic group \(C_n\) of order \(n\). Then the path coalgebra \(kZ_n\) has graded coquasi-Hopf algebra structures, parameterized by some set of \(1\)-dimensional projective representation of \(C_n\). A graded coquasi-Hopf algebra, denoted by \(M(n, s, q)\) is constructed from this data, and let \(C(n, s, q)\) be the category of finite-dimensional right \(M(n, s, q)\)-comodules. It is known that any pointed tensor category of finite type consists of finitely many identical components, and the connected component containing the neutral object is equivalent to a deformation of some \(C(n, s, q)\). The Clebsch-Gordan formulae for such tensor categories are computed, and then, the Green rings are determined, by using an explicit presentation of \(C(n, s, q)\) by quiver representations.