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Modular quasi-Hopf algebras and groups with one involution

Quantum Algebra 2023-02-09 v1 Category Theory Group Theory Rings and Algebras

Abstract

In a previous paper the authors constructed a class of quasi-Hopf algebras Dω(G,A)D^{\omega}(G, A) associated to a finite group GG, generalizing the twisted quantum double construction. We gave necessary and sufficient conditions, cohomological in nature, that the corresponding module category Rep(Dω(G,A))Rep(D^{\omega}(G, A)) is a modular tensor category.\ In the present paper we verify the cohomological conditions for the class of groups GG which \emph{contain a unique involution}, and in this way we obtain an explicit construction of a new class of modular quasi-Hopf algebras.\ We develop the basic theory for general finite groups GG, and also a parallel theory concerned with the question of when Rep(Dω(G,A))Rep(D^{\omega}(G, A)) is super-modular rather than modular. We give some explicit examples involving binary polyhedral groups and some sporadic simple groups.

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@article{arxiv.2203.05500,
  title  = {Modular quasi-Hopf algebras and groups with one involution},
  author = {Geoffrey Mason and Siu-Hung Ng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.05500},
  year   = {2023}
}

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