2-Groups, trialgebras and their Hopf categories of representations

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-108

  Pfeiffer, Hendryk ^a,b  

^a CMS   (United Kingdom)

^b EMMANUEL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorical group; Categorification; Hopf algebra; Hopf category; Tannaka Krei dotless n reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047252728     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2006.09.014     Document Type: Article

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