Eigenvalues of rotations and braids in spherical fusion categories
Abstract
We give formulae for the multiplicities of eigenvalues of generalized rotation operators in terms of generalized Frobenius-Schur indicators in a semisimple spherical tensor category . In particular, this implies that the entire collection of rotation eigenvalues for a fusion category can be computed from the fusion rules and the traces of rotation at finitely many tensor powers. We also establish a rigidity property for FS indicators of fusion categories with a given fusion ring via Jones's theory of planar algebras. If is also braided, these formulae yield the multiplicities of eigenvalues for a large class of braids in the associated braid group representations. When is modular, this allows one to determine the eigenvalues and multiplicities of braids in terms of just the and matrices.
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@article{arxiv.1611.00071,
title = {Eigenvalues of rotations and braids in spherical fusion categories},
author = {Daniel Barter and Corey Jones and Henry Tucker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.00071},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
20 pages, 14 figures. Updated version to appear in J. Algebra