Frobenius equals star-autonomous
Ross Street – 28 January 2004
The appropriate "pseudo" sense of Frobenius for a pseudomonoid, as mentioned last week, turns out to be exactly what is called "star-autonomous" in [B.J. Day and R. Street, Quantum categories, star autonomy, and quantum groupoids, to appear in "Galois Theory, Hopf Algebras, and Semiabelian Categories", Fields Institute Communications (American Mathematical Society 2004)]. This implies a remarkable connection with quantum groupoids. A weak notion of equivalence, for a morphism in a bicategory, was also defined; in the talk it was called "light equivalence" but currently I am calling it "projective equivalence. Details are available at http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~street/Frob.pdf.
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