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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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