A refined functorial universal tangle invariant

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Main Author: Becerra, Jorge
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contents The universal invariant with respect to a given ribbon Hopf algebra is a tangle invariant that dominates all the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants built from the representation theory of the algebra. We construct a canonical strict monoidal functor that encodes the universal invariant of upwards tangles and refines the Kerler-Kauffman-Radford functorial invariant. Moreover, this functor preserves the braiding, twist and the open trace, the latter being a mild modification of Joyal-Street-Verity's notion of trace in a balanced category. We construct this functor using the more flexible XC-algebras, a class which contains both ribbon Hopf algebras and endomorphism algebras of representation of these.
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spellingShingle A refined functorial universal tangle invariant
Becerra, Jorge
Geometric Topology
Quantum Algebra
16T05, 18M10, 18M15, 57K10
The universal invariant with respect to a given ribbon Hopf algebra is a tangle invariant that dominates all the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants built from the representation theory of the algebra. We construct a canonical strict monoidal functor that encodes the universal invariant of upwards tangles and refines the Kerler-Kauffman-Radford functorial invariant. Moreover, this functor preserves the braiding, twist and the open trace, the latter being a mild modification of Joyal-Street-Verity's notion of trace in a balanced category. We construct this functor using the more flexible XC-algebras, a class which contains both ribbon Hopf algebras and endomorphism algebras of representation of these.
title A refined functorial universal tangle invariant
topic Geometric Topology
Quantum Algebra
16T05, 18M10, 18M15, 57K10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17668