Tensor categories: A selective guided tour

Understand

These are the lecture notes for a short course on tensor categories.

• The coverage in these notes is relatively non-technical, focussing on the essential ideas.
• They are meant to be accessible for beginners, but it is hoped that also some of the experts will find something interesting in them.
• Once the basic definitions are given, the focus is mainly on k-linear categories with finite dimensional hom-spaces.