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Representation and character theory of finite categorical groups

Category Theory 2017-01-24 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

We study the gerbal representations of a finite group GG or, equivalently, module categories over Ostrik's category VecGαVec_G^\alpha for a 3-cocycle α\alpha. We adapt Bartlett's string diagram formalism to this situation to prove that the categorical character of a gerbal representation is a module over the twisted Drinfeld double Dα(G)D^\alpha(G). We interpret this twisted Drinfeld double in terms of the inertia groupoid of a categorical group.

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@article{arxiv.1407.6849,
  title  = {Representation and character theory of finite categorical groups},
  author = {Nora Ganter and Robert Usher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.6849},
  year   = {2017}
}

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23 pages, based on Robert Usher's MSc Thesis, final version