\(\mathrm{SO}(N)_2\) braid group representations are Gaussian (Q528806)

Summary: We give a description of the centralizer algebras for tensor powers of spin objects in the pre-modular categories \(\mathrm{SO}(N)_2\) (for \(N\) odd) and \(\mathrm{O}(N)_2\) (for \(N\) even) in terms of quantum \((n-1)\)-tori, via non-standard deformations of \(\mathrm{U}\mathfrak{so}_N\). As a consequence we show that the corresponding braid group representations are Gaussian representations, the images of which are finite groups. This verifies special cases of a conjecture that braid group representations coming from weakly integral braided fusion categories have finite image.