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Modular data of non-semisimple modular categories

Quantum Algebra 2024-12-17 v3

Abstract

We investigate non-semisimple modular categories with an eye towards a structure theory, low-rank classification, and applications to low dimensional topology and topological physics. We aim to extend the well-understood theory of semisimple modular categories to the non-semisimple case by using representations of factorizable ribbon Hopf algebras as a case study. We focus on the Cohen-Westreich modular data, which is obtained from the Lyubashenko-Majid modular representation restricted to the Higman ideal of a factorizable ribbon Hopf algebra. The Cohen-Westreich SS-matrix diagonalizes the mixed fusion rules and reduces to the usual SS-matrix for semisimple modular categories. The paper includes detailed studies on small quantum groups Uqsl(2)U_qsl(2) and the Drinfeld doubles of Nichols Hopf algebras, especially the SL(2,Z)\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{Z})-representation on their centers, Cohen-Westreich modular data, and the congruence kernel theorem's validity.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2404.09314,
  title  = {Modular data of non-semisimple modular categories},
  author = {Liang Chang and Quinn T. Kolt and Zhenghan Wang and Qing Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.09314},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

50 pages. Minor changes to fix typos. Updated Conjecture 5.3.4 to include an explicit level

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