%0 Journal Article
%T Poisson boundaries of monoidal categories
%A Sergey Neshveyev
%A Makoto Yamashita
%J Mathematics
%D 2014
%I arXiv
%X Given a rigid C*-tensor category C with simple unit and a probability measure $\mu$ on the set of isomorphism classes of its simple objects, we define the Poisson boundary of $(C,\mu)$. This is a new C*-tensor category P, generally with nonsimple unit, together with a unitary tensor functor $\Pi: C \to P$. Our main result is that if P has simple unit (which is a condition on some classical random walk), then $\Pi$ is a universal unitary tensor functor defining the amenable dimension function on C. Corollaries of this theorem unify various results in the literature on amenability of C*-tensor categories, quantum groups, and subfactors.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.6572v1