AN ALGEBRAIC APPROACH TO SYMMETRIC PRE-MONOIDAL STATISTICS
Recently, generalized Bose–Fermi statistics was studied in a category theoretic framework and to accommodate this endeavor the notion of a pre-monoidal category was developed. Here we describe an algebraic approach for the construction of such categories. We introduce a procedure called twining which breaks the quasi-bialgebra structure of the universal enveloping algebras of semi-simple Lie algebras and renders the category of finite-dimensional modules pre-monoidal. The category is also symmetric, meaning that each object of the category provides representations of the symmetric groups, which allows for a generalized boson-fermion statistic to be defined. Exclusion and confinement principles for systems of indistinguishable particles are formulated as an invariance with respect to the actions of the symmetric group. We apply the procedure to suggest that the symmetries which can be associated to color, spin and flavor degrees of freedom lead to confinement of states.