18.769 | Spring 2009 | Graduate

Topics in Lie Theory: Tensor Categories

Course Description

This course will give a detailed introduction to the theory of tensor categories and review some of its connections to other subjects (with a focus on representation-theoretic applications). In particular, we will discuss categorifications of such notions from ring theory as: module, morphism of modules, Morita …
This course will give a detailed introduction to the theory of tensor categories and review some of its connections to other subjects (with a focus on representation-theoretic applications). In particular, we will discuss categorifications of such notions from ring theory as: module, morphism of modules, Morita equivalence of rings, commutative ring, the center of a ring, the centralizer of a subring, the double centralizer property, graded ring, etc.
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Pentagon axiom diagram
The pentagon axiom is commutative for all objects W, X, Y, Z, in C. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)