Generalized twisted quantum doubles and the McKay correspondence. (Q626701)

The authors follow some of the ideas of \textit{R. Dijkgraaf, V. Pasquier} and \textit{P. Roche} [Nucl. Phys., B, Proc. Suppl. 18B, 60-72 (1990; Zbl 0957.81670)], where the twisted quantum double \(D^\omega(G)\) of a finite group \(G\) was introduced. We recall that \(D^\omega(G)\) is a quasi-Hopf algebra obtained by twisting the Drinfeld double \(D(G)\) by a 3-cocycle of \(G\). In the paper by Dijkgraaf, Pasquier and Roche mentioned above, several open problems and suggestions are stated. In particular, it is suggested there that the irreducible representations of \(D^\omega(G)\) naturally correspond to the irreducible representations of certain kind of conformal field theory. In the paper under review, the authors consider a class of quasi-Hopf algebras, called generalized twisted quantum doubles, that correspond to Abelian extensions \(H=\mathbb C[\overline G]^*\bowtie\mathbb C[G]\), where \(\overline G=G/N\), with \(N\trianglelefteq G\), possibly twisted by a 3-cocycle of \(G\) that is inflated from a 3-cocycle of \(G\). One shows that \(H\) is a quasi-Hopf algebra that reduces to the twisted quantum double \(D^\omega(G)\) of Dijkgraaf, Pasquier and Roche when \(N=1\). In case \(G\) is a finite subgroup of \(\text{SL}_2(\mathbb C)\) and \(N\) has order at most two, the authors prove that the quasi-Hopf algebra \(H\) possesses an orbifold McKay correspondence in the sense that one can associate a graph \(\mathcal G\) to \(N\) with connected components indexed by the conjugacy classes of \(\overline G\) such that each connected component is an extended affine diagram of type ADE whose McKay correspondent is the subgroup of \(G\) stabilizing an element in the conjugacy class. This reduces to the original McKay correspondence when \(\overline G=1\). Several aspects of the orbifold McKay correspondence are discussed in the paper.