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View SchemaBraided Deformations of Monoidal Categories and Vassiliev Invariants
| Authors | David N. Yetter |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | q-alg/9710010 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9710010 |
Abstract
Braided deformations of (symmetric) monoidal categories are related to Vassiliev theory by a direct generalization of well-known results relating "quantum" knot invariants to Vassiliev invariants. The deformation theory of braidings is subsumed by the deformation theory of monoidal functors, which proves surprisingly rich: the deformation complex of a monoidal functor has the same structure as the deformation complex of an algebra, including a pre-Lie structure, from which it is see that the problem of deforming monoidal functors (including braidings) is purely cohomological in nature.
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