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Title: Integral metaplectic modular categories
A braided fusion category is said to have Property F if the associated braid group representations factor through a finite group. We verify integral metaplectic modular categories have property F by showing these categories are group-theoretical. For the special case of integral categories [Formula: see text] with the fusion rules of [Formula: see text] we determine the finite group [Formula: see text] for which [Formula: see text] is braided equivalent to [Formula: see text]. In addition, we determine the associated classical link invariant, an evaluation of the 2-variable Kauffman polynomial at a point.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1664359
NSF-PAR ID:
10192360
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications
Volume:
29
Issue:
05
ISSN:
0218-2165
Page Range / eLocation ID:
2050032
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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