A higher Frobenius-Schur indicator formula for group-theoretical fusion categories (Q500066)

A group-theoretical fusion category can be described a fusion category which is categorically Morita equivalent to a pointed fusion category. These kind of fusion categories, as well as its module categories and isomorphism classes of simple objects, have been classified in terms of cohomological data in the paper [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2003, No. 27, 1507--1520 (2003; Zbl 1044.18005)], by \textit{V. Ostrik}. A formula for the second Frobenius-Schur indicator of a simple object in a group-theoretical fusion category was given by the reviewer in [Pac. J. Math. 221, No. 2, 353--377 (2005; Zbl 1108.16035)]. In the paper under review the author gives explicit formulas for the higher Frobenius-Schur indicator of a simple object in a group-theoretical fusion category in terms of the relevant group-theoretical data associated to the category. This extends previous work of the author in the paper [``Computing higher Frobenius-Schur indicators in fusion categories constructed from inclusions of finite groups'', Pac. J. Math. 280, No. 1, 177--201 (2016; Zbl 1332.18013)]. The formulas in this paper are obtained using a result of \textit{S.-H. Ng} and the author [Adv. Math. 211, No. 1, 34--71 (2007; Zbl 1138.16017)] according to which the indicators of an object \(M\) in a pivotal fusion category \(\mathcal C\) can be computed as the trace of the powers of the ribbon structure on \(K(M)\), where \(K : \mathcal C \to \mathcal Z(\mathcal C)\) is the adjoint of the forgetful functor from the Drinfeld center \(\mathcal Z (\mathcal C)\) of \(\mathcal C\) to \(\mathcal C\).