Modular categories and orbifold models

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Abstract: In this paper, we try to answer the following question: given a modular tensor category A with an action of a compact group G, is it possible to describe in a suitable sense the ``quotient category A/G? We give a full answer in the case when A=vec is the category of vector spaces; in this case, vec/G turns out to be the category of representation of Drinfeld's double D(G). This should be considered as category theory analog of topological identity pt//G=BG. This implies a conjecture of Dijkgraaf, Vafa, E. Verlinde and H. Verlinde regarding so-called orbifold conformal field theories: if V is a vertex operator algebra which has a unique irreducible module, V itself, and G is a compact group of automorphisms of V, and some not too restricitive technical conditions are satisfied, then G is finite, and the category of representations of the algebra of invariants, VG, is equivalent as a tensor category to the category of representations of Drinfeld's double D(G). We also get some partial results in the non-holomorphic case, i.e. when V has more than one simple module.




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