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Premonoidal categories associated with representations of finite groups and their quantum doubles

L. D. Wagner·J. Links·P. S. Isaac·W. P. Joyce·K. A. Dancer
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We study the construction of premonoidal categories, where the pentagon relation fails, through representations of finite group algebras and their quantum doubles. Both finite group algebras and their quantum doubles have a finite number of irreducible representations. We show that in each case there are at least $2^{n-1}$ inequivalent premonoidal categories of representations, where $n$ is the number of irreducible representations. By construction, for the case of finite group algebras the categories are symmetric whereas for the quantum doubles the categories are braided.

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L. D. Wagner, J. Links, P. S. Isaac, W. P. Joyce, K. A. Dancer. 2006-06-28. Premonoidal categories associated with representations of finite groups and their quantum doubles. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606704

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