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Finite symmetric integral tensor categories with the Chevalley property

Quantum Algebra 2019-03-21 v4

Abstract

We prove that every finite symmetric integral tensor category C\mathcal{C} with the Chevalley property over an algebraically closed field kk of characteristic p>2p>2 admits a symmetric fiber functor to sVec\text{sVec}. This proves Ostrik's conjecture \cite[Conjecture 1.3]{o} in this case. Equivalently, we prove that there exists a unique finite supergroup scheme G\mathcal{G} over kk and a grouplike element ϵk[G]\epsilon\in k[\mathcal{G}] of order 2\le 2, whose action by conjugation on G\mathcal{G} coincides with the parity automorphism of G\mathcal{G}, such that C\mathcal{C} is symmetric tensor equivalent to \Rep(G,ϵ)\Rep(\mathcal{G},\epsilon). In particular, when C\mathcal{C} is unipotent, the functor lands in \Vect\Vect, so C\mathcal{C} is symmetric tensor equivalent to \Rep(U)\Rep(U) for a unique finite unipotent group scheme UU over kk. We apply our result and the results of \cite{g} to classify certain finite dimensional triangular Hopf algebras with the Chevalley property over kk (e.g., local), in group scheme-theoretical terms. Finally, we compute the Sweedler cohomology of restricted enveloping algebras over an algebraically closed field kk of characteristic p>0p>0, classify associators for their duals, and study finite dimensional (not necessarily triangular) local quasi-Hopf algebras and finite (not necessarily symmetric) unipotent tensor categories over an algebraically closed field kk of characteristic p>0p>0. The appendix by K. Coulembier and P. Etingof gives another proof of the above classification results using the recent paper \cite{Co}, and, more generally, shows that the maximal Tannakian and super-Tannakian subcategory of a symmetric tensor category over a field of characteristic 2\ne 2 is always a Serre subcategory.

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@article{arxiv.1901.00528,
  title  = {Finite symmetric integral tensor categories with the Chevalley property},
  author = {Pavel Etingof and Shlomo Gelaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00528},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

With an appendix by Kevin Coulembier and Pavel Etingof, 26 pages. Some changes in the appendix. Some changes in Propositions 2.4 and 3.5, Corollaries 2.6 and 5.10, and Section 3.4. 27 pages, Proposition 2.4 and its proof were modified

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