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A reason for fusion rules to be even

Quantum Algebra 2009-11-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Category Theory

Abstract

We show that certain tensor product multiplicities in semisimple braided sovereign tensor categories must be even. The quantity governing this behavior is the Frobenius-Schur indicator. The result applies in particular to the representation categories of large classes of groups, Lie algebras, Hopf algebras and vertex algebras.

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@article{arxiv.math/0110257,
  title  = {A reason for fusion rules to be even},
  author = {Juergen Fuchs and Ingo Runkel and Christoph Schweigert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0110257},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, LaTeX