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On twisted Verlinde formulae for modular categories

Quantum Algebra 2018-11-22 v1

Abstract

In this note, we describe two analogues of the Verlinde formula for modular categories in a twisted setting. The classical Verlinde formula for a modular category C\mathscr{C} describes the fusion coefficients of C\mathscr{C} in terms of the corresponding S-matrix S(C)S(\mathscr{C}). Now let us suppose that we also have an invertible C\mathscr{C}-module category M\mathscr{M} equipped with a C\mathscr{C}-module trace. This gives rise to a modular autoequivalence F:CCF:\mathscr{C}\xrightarrow{\cong}\mathscr{C}. In this setting, we can define a crossed S-matrix S(C,M)S(\mathscr{C},\mathscr{M}). As our first twisted analogue of the Verlinde formula, we will describe the fusion coefficients for M\mathscr{M} as a C\mathscr{C}-module category in terms of the S-matrix S(C)S(\mathscr{C}) and the crossed S-matrix S(C,M)S(\mathscr{C},\mathscr{M}). In this twisted setting, we can also define a twisted fusion Qab\mathbb{Q}^{ab}-algebra KQab(C,F)K_{\mathbb{Q}^{ab}}(\mathscr{C},F). As another analogue of the Verlinde formula, we describe the fusion coefficients of the twisted fusion algebra in terms of the crossed S-matrix S(C,M)S(\mathscr{C},\mathscr{M}).

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@article{arxiv.1811.08447,
  title  = {On twisted Verlinde formulae for modular categories},
  author = {Tanmay Deshpande},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.08447},
  year   = {2018}
}

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