Frobenius-Schur indicators and exponents of spherical categories

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-71

  Ng, Siu Hung ^a   Schauenburg, Peter ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exponent; Frobenius Schur indicator; Fusion category; Modular tensor category; Quasi Hopf algebra

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847106814     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2006.07.017     Document Type: Article

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