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Let now C be a ribbon category. We describe the category T C of C-coloured framed oriented<br />

tangles.<br />

Observation 5.3.13.<br />

1. Tangles are framed and oriented. Each component of a tangle is labelled with an object<br />

of C. Isotopies preserve the orientation, framing and labelling.<br />

2. The objects of T C are finite sequences of pairs<br />

including the empty sequence.<br />

(V 1 , ɛ 1 ) . . . (V n , ɛ n ) V i ∈ C ɛ i ∈ {±1} ,<br />

3. Morphisms are isotopy classes of framed oriented tangles. If the source object has label<br />

ɛ = +1, the tangle is upward directed and labelled with V . It has to end on either an<br />

object (V, +1) at t = 1 or at (V, −1) at t = 0, where t ∈ [0, 1] parametrizes the tangle.<br />

4. The category T C is endowed with a ribbon structure in complete analogy to the ribbon<br />

structure on the category T of framed oriented tangles.<br />

Proposition 5.3.14.<br />

Let C be a ribbon category. Then there is a unique braided tensor functor<br />

such that<br />

F = F C : T C → C,<br />

1. F acts on objects as F (V, +) = V and F (V, −) = V ∗ .<br />

2. For all objects V, W of C, we have<br />

c V,W<br />

V<br />

W<br />

θ V<br />

V<br />

b V<br />

d V<br />

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