In their book Quantum Groups Chari and Pressley define the ribbon element of a quasitriangular Hopf Algebra algebra $(H,R)$ as a special element $\nu\in H$ such that
- $\nu$ is central in $H$
- $\nu^2=\mu S(\mu)$
- $S(\nu)=\nu$
$\epsilon(\nu)=1$
where $\mu=m(S\otimes 1)R_{21}$
I'm trying to get from the Chari and Pressley definition to the following $$ \nu=m((1\otimes \mu^{-1})R)=m((1\otimes \mu)R_{21}) $$
Any help would be appreciated