The braided monoidal structure of tube algebra representations

Abstract: We consider the tube algebra of a spherical semisimple multitensor category $\mathcal{X}$, and construct a braided monoidal structure with twist for its representations. We further show that this category is braided tensor equivalent with the Drinfeld center of the ind-category of $\mathcal{X}$, extending the well-known linear equivalence.