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A Yetter—Drinfeld category over a Hopf algebra H with a bijective antipode, is equipped with a ‘braiding’ which may be symmetric for some of its subcategories (e.g. when H is a triangular Hopf algebra). We prove that under an additional condition (which we term the u-condition) such symmetric subcategories completely resemble the category of vector spaces over a field k, with the ordinary ‘flip’ map. Consequently, when Char k=0, one can define well behaving exterior algebras and non-commutative determinant functions.
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Cohen, M., Westreich, S. Determinants and Symmetries in ‘Yetter—Drinfeld’ Categories. Applied Categorical Structures 6, 267–289 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008668314522
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