The quantum spin Brauer category

Abstract

We introduce a diagrammatic braided monoidal category, the quantum spin Brauer category, together with a full functor to the category of finite-dimensional type-$1$ modules for $U_q(\mathfrak{so}(N))$ or $U_q(\mathfrak{o}(N))$. This functor becomes essentially surjective after passing to the idempotent completion. The quantum spin Brauer category can be thought of as a quantum version of the spin Brauer category introduced previously by the authors. Alternatively, it is an enlargement of the Kauffman category, obtained by adding a generating object corresponding to the quantum spin module.