TANNAKA-KREIN DUALITY FOR COMPACT QUANTUM HOMOGENEOUS SPACES. I. GENERAL THEORY

An ergodic action of a compact quantum group G on an operator algebra A can be interpreted as a quantum homogeneous space for G. Such an action gives rise to the category of finite equivariant Hilbert modules over A, which has a module structure over the tensor category Rep(G) of finite-dimensional representations of G. We show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the quantum G-homogeneous spaces up to equivariant Morita equivalence, and indecomposable module C*-categories over Rep(G) up to natural equivalence. This gives a global approach to the duality theory for ergodic actions as developed by C. Pinzari and J. Roberts.