Weakly group-theoretical and solvable fusion categories

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DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2010.06.009zbMATH Open1210.18009arXiv0809.3031OpenAlexW2120051618MaRDI QIDQ610669FDOQ610669


Authors: Dmitri Nikshych, Pavel Etingof, Victor Ostrik Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 10 December 2010

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce two new classes of fusion categories which are obtained by a certain procedure from finite groups - weakly group-theoretical categories and solvable categories. These are fusion categories that are Morita equivalent to iterated extensions (in the world of fusion categories) of arbitrary, respectively solvable finite groups. Weakly group-theoretical categories have integer dimension, and all known fusion categories of integer dimension are weakly group theoretical. Our main results are that a weakly group-theoretical category C has the strong Frobenius property (i.e., the dimension of any simple object in an indecomposable C-module category divides the dimension of C), and that any fusion category whose dimension has at most two prime divisors is solvable (a categorical analog of Burnside's theorem for finite groups). This has powerful applications to classification of fusion categories and semsisimple Hopf algebras of a given dimension. In particular, we show that any fusion category of integer dimension <84 is weakly group-theoretical (i.e. comes from finite group theory), and give a full classification of semisimple Hopf algebras of dimensions pqr and pq^2, where p,q,r are distinct primes.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3031




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