Centers of braided tensor categories

Abstract

Let C be a finite braided multitensor category. Then the end B=∫X∈CX⊗X⁎ is natural a Hopf algebra in C. We show that the Drinfeld center of C is isomorphic to the category of left B-comodules in C, and the decomposition of B into a direct sum of indecomposable C-subcoalgebras leads to a decomposition of B-ComodC into a direct sum of indecomposable C-module subcategories.As an application, we present an explicit characterization of the structure of irreducible Yetter-Drinfeld modules over semisimple and cosemisimple quasi-triangular weak Hopf algebras. Our results generalize those results on finite groups and on quasi-triangular Hopf algebras.