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Proof.<br />
We have already seen in corollary 3.3.4.2 that 3. implies 1. and 2. One can show that 2 implies<br />
1, see Larson and Radford. Here we only show that 1. and 2. together imply 3. Suppose that H<br />
and H ∗ are both semisimple and thus, by corollary 3.2.15, unimodular. By corollary 3.3.13.3,<br />
then S 4 = (S 2 ) 2 = id.<br />
Hence the eigenvalues of S 2 on H and of S 2 | χH H ∗ are all ±1. Call them (μ j) 1≤j≤n with<br />
n := dim H and (η i ) 1≤i≤m with m := dim χ H H ∗ . Thus<br />
Tr H ∗(S 2 ) =<br />
n∑<br />
m<br />
μ j and Tr(S 2 | χH H ∗) = ∑<br />
η i ,<br />
j=1<br />
i=1<br />
By lemma 3.3.18,<br />
This implies<br />
n ∙ |<br />
n∑<br />
μ j = n<br />
j=1<br />
m∑<br />
η i | ≤<br />
i=1<br />
m∑<br />
η i . (8)<br />
i=1<br />
n∑<br />
|μ j | = n .<br />
For a semisimple Hopf algebra, we have seen in corollary 3.3.4 that 0 ≠ TrS 2 = ∑ n<br />
j=1 μ j<br />
and thus by the equality (8) we find ∑ m<br />
i=1 η i ≠ 0. This implies ∑ m<br />
i=1 η i = ±1 and, as a further<br />
consequence of equation (8) we have ∑ n<br />
j=1 μ j = ±n. Since S 2 (1 H ) = 1 H , we have at least<br />
one eigenvalue +1. Thus all eigenvalues of S 2 on H have to be +1 which amounts to S 2 = id H . ✷<br />
There are some important results we do not cover in these lectures. The following theorem<br />
is proven in [Schneider]:<br />
Theorem 3.3.20 (Nichols-Zoeller, 1989).<br />
Let H be a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra, and let R ⊂ H be a Hopf subalgebra. Then H is<br />
a free R-module.<br />
Corollary 3.3.21 (“Langrange’s theorem for Hopf algebras”).<br />
If R ⊂ H are finite-dimensional Hopf algebras, then the order of R divides the order of H.<br />
We finally refer to chapter 4 of Schneider’s lecture notes [Schneider] for a character theory<br />
for finite-dimensional semisimple Hopf algebras that closely parallels the character theory for<br />
finite groups.<br />
j=1<br />
4 Quasi-triangular Hopf algebras and braided categories<br />
4.1 Interlude: topological field theory<br />
In this subsection, we introduce the notion of a topological field theory and investigate lowdimensional<br />
topological field theories. To this end, we need more structure on monoidal categories.<br />
Let (C, ⊗, a, l, r) be a tensor category. From the tensor product ⊗ : C × C → C, we can get<br />
the functor ⊗ opp = ⊗ ◦ τ with<br />
V ⊗ opp W := W ⊗ V and f ⊗ opp g := g ⊗ f .<br />
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