Group Cohomology and Gauge Equivalence of Some Twisted Quantum Doubles
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We study the module category associated to the quantum double of a finite abelian group G twisted by a 3-cocycle, which is known to be a braided monoidal category, and investigate the question of when two such categories are equivalent. We base our discussion on an exact sequence which interweaves the ordinary and Eilenberg-Mac Lane cohomology of G. Roughly speaking, this reveals that the data provided by such module categories is equivalent to (among other things) a finite quadratic space equipped with a metabolizer, and also a pair of rational lattices L ⊆ M with L self-dual and integral.
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