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Fiber Functors of Equivariantizations of Finite Tensor Categories

Quantum Algebra 2026-07-12 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a finite group acting on a finite tensor category C\mathcal{C}. We classify fiber functors on the equivariantization CG\mathcal{C}^G in terms of equivariant exact module categories over C\mathcal{C}, indexed by subgroups of GG. The data are a subgroup HGH\subseteq G and an HH-equivariant C\mathcal{C}-module category M\mathcal{M} whose underlying C\mathcal{C}-module category is indecomposable, exact, and semisimple; they give a fiber functor precisely when HH acts transitively on the simple objects of M\mathcal{M} and the stabilizer cocycle of one, hence every, simple object is non-degenerate. Through Tannaka-Krein reconstruction this describes realizations of CG\mathcal{C}^G as the representation category of a finite-dimensional Hopf algebra, with no semisimplicity hypothesis on C\mathcal{C}. As applications, for odd primes pp we determine the fiber functors on Rep(Hp)\mathrm{Rep}(H_p), where HpH_p denotes Nikshych's semisimple Hopf algebra of dimension 4p24p^2: there is one equivalence class if p3(mod4)p\equiv 3\pmod 4 and two if p1(mod4)p\equiv 1\pmod 4. We also use the classification for gaugings to determine which non-pointed entries in the small-dimensional list of Green and Nikshych are representation categories of semisimple factorizable Hopf algebras.

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@article{arxiv.2607.10525,
  title  = {Fiber Functors of Equivariantizations of Finite Tensor Categories},
  author = {César Galindo and Claudia Gallego and Yiby Morales},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.10525},
  year   = {2026}
}

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