Fusion Rings over Drinfeld Doubles

MaRDI QIDQ6510490arXivFDO

Authors Wen-Qi Li

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Hopf algebras and their applications (16T05)

Abstract: We prove an explicit formula for the fusion rules in $mathrm{Rep}_{f}D(G)$ for any finite group $G$ in terms of character inner products. This formula was proved in a special case by Goff. We generalized it to the present form. An even more general result is stated without explicit proof in a paper by Mason and Goff. Here, we give two different proofs, one by character manipulations and the other one by using Mackey theory. Using this formula, we show that $mathrm{Rep}_{f}D(G)$ is multiplicity free for two infinite families of finite groups: the Dihedral groups and the Dicyclic groups. In fact, we will compute all fusion rules in these categories. Multiplicity freeness is a desired property for modular tensor categories, since it greatly simplifies the computation of $F$-matrices. Furthermore, we observe that the fusion rules for Dihedral groups $D_{2n}$ with $n$ odd are extremely similar to the fusion rules of Type $B$ level $2$ fusion algebras of Wess-Zumino-Witten conformal field theories.

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