Groups with some combinatorial properties

MaRDI QIDQ1371119zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Akihide Hanaki, Tetsuro Okuyama

Publication date 8 September 1998

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-groupsassociation schemesBose-Mesner algebrascharacter algebrasfusion algebrasgroup association schemesmodular invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Association schemes, strongly regular graphs (05E30) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Finite nilpotent groups, (p)-groups (20D15) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Review text

\textit{E. Bannai} [J. Algebr. Comb. 2, No. 4, 327-344 (1993; Zbl 0790.05098)]\ introduced the concept of fusion algebras at an algebraic level, a purely algebraic concept for fusion algebras in mathematical physics. He showed that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between character algebras (Bose-Mesner algebras at algebraic level) and fusion algebras at an algebraic level. The concept of character algebras is a purely algebraic concept for Bose-Mesner algebras of association schemes. For any commutative association scheme, a character algebra and the corresponding fusion algebra at algebraic level are constructed. But this fusion algebra at an algebraic level is far from a fusion algebra in mathematical physics. A fusion algebra in mathematical physics is integral, its matrix \(S\) is symmetric (and unitary), and it has the modular invariance property. But these are not true for fusion algebras at an algebraic level. So he asked which fusion algebras at an algebraic level have these properties. In this paper, we construct some \(p\)-groups and check the properties of their group association schemes. For our groups, the fusion algebras are integral and \(S\) is unitary but not necessary symmetric. Section 4 is a generalization of [\textit{A. Hanaki}, Osaka J. Math. 33, No. 1, 207-216 (1996; Zbl 0872.20006)].

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